Help: the evaluation of a determinant

duvin103time

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Suppose x1 x2 x3 ... xm and p1 p2 p3 ... pm are indeterminates.
D=[
x1^p1, x1^p2,..., x1^pm;
x2^p1, x2^p2,..., x2^pm;
......................
......................
xm^p1, xm^p2,..., xm^pm;
]
What is the determinant of D?
I think det(D) may be similar with Vandermonde determinant. But I cannot find the degree of the factors such as (x1-x2) (x2-x3)... The indeterminates p1 p2 p3 ... pm confuse me.

Many thanks!
 
Wolfram Mathworld says
"There is no general formula for the determinant of a generalized Vandermonde matrix."
 
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