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Checks if a number is even.

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Latest Release
9 years ago
Better as a utility function
Trivial

Dependency Tree

  • is-even @1.0.0 (4)
    • is-odd @0.1.2 (3)
      • is-number @3.0.0 (2)
        • kind-of @3.2.2 (1)
          • is-buffer @1.1.6

About

This dependency checks if a number is even.

This can be done natively using the % remainder operator. It returns the remainder.

1 % 2; // 1
2 % 2; // 0
3 % 2; // 1
4 % 2; // 0
// ...

Even numbers return 0, so a corresponding function would look like:

function isEven(number) {
    return number % 2 === 0;
}

isEven(4); // true
isEven(7); // false