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[โ€“] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (14 children)

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.

[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

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.

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