Zero is an even number.
This question might seem tricky at first glance. But there is a detailed and clear explanation, which proves that zero is, in fact, an even number:
Zero is an integer (in other words, a whole number, like 1, 3, 54, -40). An even number is an integer multiple of 2 (so 6 is even because it is 3 x 2; 2 is also an even number because it is 1 x 2). So zero is also an even number because it fits the definition of "even": it is an integer multiple of 2, specifically 0 × 2.
Equivalently an even number is an integer which, when divided by 2, leaves no remainder: it is clear that this is true in the case of 0.
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229 Comments
Mary West
Zero is NOT a number. It's the junxtion between Positive intergers and negative intergers. Comparatively a modern invention. Did not exist in Roman Numerals.
Ken Putnam
David Grimsrud No, David, it is not
it is neither positive nor negative
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60300.html
James Martin
I agree Mary zero is a place holder...it was invented by the Phoneciens
Mickey Huber
This answer is incorrect. In order for a number to be an even number it must be a multiple of 2. Therefore the first even number is 2 itself. 0 x 2 = 0.
David Grimsrud
that was then, this is now and Zero is even
Carol Walters Richards
More ways to confuse kids.
HOW CAN NOTHING BE ANYTHING UNLESS PRECEDED BE AN INTEGER?
Bewley Steve
The early counting systems only saw the zero as a placeholder—not a number with its own unique value or properties. A full grasp of zero’s importance would not arrive until the seventh century A.D. in India. There, the mathematician Brahmagupta and others used small dots under numbers to show a zero placeholder, but they also viewed the zero as having a null value, called “sunya.” Brahmagupta was also the first to show that subtracting a number from itself results in zero. From India, the zero made its way to China and back to the Middle East, where it was taken up by the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi around 773. It was al-Khowarizmi who first synthesized Indian arithmetic and showed how the zero could function in algebraic equations, and by the ninth century the zero had entered the Arabic numeral system in a form resembling the oval shape we use today.
Martin Carman
We have ten numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, NOT NINE. It is a number.
Timothy White-Stevens
No Ken, the question is asking if it is even or odd not positive or negative. Clearly 0 is neither positive nor negative, and it is even. I have a masters degree in math and have spent much graduate work studying and doing research on numbers
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Zero is not a number... It's nothing.
mm
I did not learn it this way in school or college.
jim donald
I give this question a positive grade of 0 because my negative value in caring
Ben
When you answer yes, it is no and vice versa. The same when you answer true, it is false. What a crazy game this is. Who is giving the question the 3 stooges?
Player
It is a tricky question at first glance and after reading the answer.
maidofstardust
Stand by my false. I believe that 0 is a number but is not even or uneven.
Marianne Frederick Halterman
Zero is not a number even or otherwise! This is wrong-headed from the word Go!
Kat
Zero is not, and never has been, a number. Even the explanation proves that. I could have a WHOLE LOT more points if all the quiz questions actually had correct answers.
kpkennedy
What a bunch of horse hockey.....zero is not a number....even or odd. It is basically a place holder.
Carroll Price
Zero is not a number.
Heather Nelson
Illustrating what I’ve said: 0 is one of the whole numbers, namely 0, 1, 2, .....
Heather Nelson
Donald Nappe, Sorry, editing my reply, Should read ‘ Please See my comments above’.
Heather Nelson
Donald Nappe, Please ser my comments above. The answer given for this Quizz is incorrect.
In Education Dept teacher reference books, the explanations are as I’ve pointed out above.
Heather Nelson
Mickey Huber, I agree.
Heather Nelson
0 is one of the whole numbers.