Subject: Re: [HM] A question around zero
From: Jean-Luc Gautero (jgautero@club-internet.fr)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 16:17:50 EST
Ed Wall asked a question about the evenness or oddness of zero. I don't
understand the question, because I thought that "even" and "odd" were
the same as, in french, "pair" and "impair": that is, that an even number
was a multiple of 2, and an odd number not a multiple of 2 (2n+1, where
n is an integer): in that case, 0 is clearly even: 0=2*0. So, how do you
define an even number?
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