Posted by: no_quiero April 5, 2008
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Let me prove by another way why zero isnt even by following steps.

1. Lets start by assuming zero is even and it can be distributed equally among 2 people.

2. If something can be distributed equally. Then it must be finite number . because only finite  number are are measurable.  Because we can measure and know whether the number are equal or not. So 0 is a finite number.

3. We also know law of mathematics says finite number divided by finite number in mathematics should yield a finite number.  so say divide finite number 2 divide by finite number  0. should yield a finite number. However, here in division we get an infinite number.

Hence it proves our initial assumption was wrong and zero cannot be considered even. By considering even it may hold good for one law of mathematics but it  violates other law of mathematics. So zero is not really an even or odd number.
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