The Coin-Flipped Determinant

You fill every cell of a 5×5 5 \times 5 grid by flipping a fair coin: heads writes +1 +1 , tails writes −1 -1 , all 25 25 flips independent. Treating the grid as a matrix A A , what is the variance of det⁡A \det A ?

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