2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/77016A determinant evaluation is proven, a special case of which establishes a conjecture of Bombieri, Hunt, and van der Poorten (Experimental Math\. {\bf 4} (1995), 87--96) that arose in the study of Thue's method of approximating algebraic numbers.AMSTeXCombinatoricsProof of a determinant evaluation conjectured by Bombieri, Hunt and van der Poortentext