even number

Noun

Meaning

A positive integer that can be divided by two, and two itself.

(mathematics) An integer that is divisible by two.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see even,‎ number. (a number that is equal or equivalent)

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You say your life's a bum deal 'n yer up against the wall. Well, people, you ain't even got no deal at all. 'Cause what they do in Washington. They just takes care of Number One. An' Number One ain't you. You ain't even Number Two! Frank Zappa

We're not even number one in social mobility. Social mobility means basically the American dream, the ability of one generation to do better than the next. We're tenth. That's like Sweden coming tenth in Swedish meatballs. Bill Maher

With great men one must allow five to be an even number. German Proverb

Accept (or final) statesmain Fig. 5: Representation of a finite-state machine; this example shows one that determines whether a binary number has an even number of 0s, where is an accepting state. Source: Internet

All protons in the same level (n) have the same parity (either +1 or −1), and since the parity of a pair of particles is the product of their parities, an even number of protons from the same level (n) will have +1 parity. Source: Internet

An even number of flipped bits will make the parity bit appear correct even though the data is erroneous. Source: Internet

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