Subject: Re: [HM] A question around zero
From: Prof. Dr. Jochen Ziegenbalg (ye12@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Date: Mon Jan 24 2000 - 10:09:25 EST
Dear list members,
lest someone thinks that the question if zero is an even number is of no
practical value at all, let me quote the following news from the German
television news program (ZDF) "heute" on Oct. 1, 1977:
Smog alarm in Paris: Only cars with an odd terminating number on the
license plate are admitted for driving. Cars with an even such number
were not allowed to be driven. There were problems: Is the terminating
number 0 an even number? Drivers with such numbers were not fined,
because the police did not know the answer.
Jochen Ziegenbalg
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