diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index bcb3105507..745ca06177 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Mon Oct 29 03:20:58 2012  Marc-Andre Lafortune  <ruby-core@marc-andre.ca>
+
+	* lib/matrix.rb: Fix determinant_e [ruby-dev:46305] [Bug #7228]
+
 Sun Oct 28 23:52:25 2012  Kouhei Sutou  <kou@cozmixng.org>
 
 	* test/rexml/test_document.rb: Add tests for parsing XML encoded
diff --git a/lib/matrix.rb b/lib/matrix.rb
index 00fa762da6..3ffd0ddc78 100644
--- a/lib/matrix.rb
+++ b/lib/matrix.rb
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ class Matrix
   #
   def determinant_e
     warn "#{caller(1)[0]}: warning: Matrix#determinant_e is deprecated; use #determinant"
-    rank
+    determinant
   end
   alias det_e determinant_e