We are given a matrix \( A=\left[\begin{array}{ll} \frac{1}{2} & 0 \\ 0 & \frac{1}{2} \end{array}\right] \) and told that \( A^{2}=A \cdot A \), \( A^{3}=A^{2} \cdot A \), and so on, where \( A^{n}=A^{n-1} \cdot A \). We need to find the sum of the determinants of
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