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Re:Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know by triska on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:27AM (#17045936)
Prolog is also like this:

    ?- x is -4 mod 2.
    X = 0.
    ?- X is -8 mod 2.
    X = 0. 
    ?- X is -9 mod 2.
    X = 1.
Using declarative integer arithmetic, we can even express very generally that a number X is a multiple of 2:

    ?- X #= 2*_.
This is true iff there is any integer (indicated by an anonymous variable _) that, multiplied by 2, yields X. It works for positive and negative integers.

For example:

    ?- -4 #= 2*_.
    true.
    ?- -9 #= 2*_.
    false.
A very nice reference on the general topic of bitwise operations is Donald Knuth's Bitwise Tricks and Techniques in Volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming.

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