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Teach the Controversy [TM]!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_of_zero#Education

Claims made by students:

    "Zero is not even or odd."
    "Zero could be even."
    "Zero is not odd."
    "Zero has to be an even."
    "Zero is not an even number."
    "Zero is always going to be an even number."
    "Zero is not always going to be an even number."
    "Zero is even."
    "Zero is special."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach_the_Controversy


Just so you know (not just for this comment)--you are my favorite HN user. Everything you post is either funny, quirky, or extremely interesting (mostly all of the above).


And, to add to this (I'm not being snarky), he could be the father/grandfather of many HNers. I recall one of his comments about how he was doing stuff on computers in 1965.

We need more old coders around!


Thanks, but my age was negative in 1965! (But not very.) Maybe I was taking credit for somebody else's work and forgot to get my story straight. ;)

Old coders never die, they just get frozen until their favorite programming languages come back into fashion.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39


To add some positivity, I'll add that I'm also a fan :).


I mean, zero is so even, it is not even odd!




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