Hello. I recently started taking a class on C programming, and am stuck. One part of the program needs to tell the user if the number they entered is odd or even. How would I go about doing this? I was told to look at the remainder, but am still confused on how to make this work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
An odd number will have a remainder when divided by 2 an even number won't. To get the remainder use the % operator.
Code:if (Number %2)
That is all I need to do? I've been trying many different things, such asCode:if ((number % 2) == (number / 2))
I did not realize that it was so simple. Thanks a lot for your help!
Assuming that number is an integer type, this works. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out why.Code:if (number & 1) { /* number is odd */ }
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There is an FAQ entry on the subject: http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385
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