What is the smallest possible dimension for a vector space with a non-degenerate skew-symmetric bilinear form? Why?

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What is the smallest possible dimension for a vector space with a non-degenerate skew-symmetric bilinear form? Why?

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You can easily construct an example.

Try the bilinear form that takes $(a,b)$ and $(c,d)$ to $ad-bc$.