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num % 2
isn't a boolean result in any of these languages, so I feel like it would always output "odd"Edit: 0 is false, everything else is true.
You'd be surprised.
But seriously, numbers can be used as booleans in an impressive number of languages. Including machine code for almost every machine out there.