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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by ratww on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @12:01PM (#29242999)
`is-odd` is made by the same developer. This was created to inflate NPM numbers.
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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by 3pt14159 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @01:42PM (#29244686)
This is what I like about ruby. I search, I find, they have almost no downloads:

https://rubygems.org/gems/is_odd/versions/0.1.1

https://rubygems.org/gems/is_even/versions/0.1.0

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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by rezonant on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @10:05PM (#29248923)
It is built into Ruby.

    2.7.3 :003 > 1.odd?
     => true
    2.7.3 :004 > 2.odd?
     => false
    2.7.3 :005 > 1.even?
     => false
    2.7.3 :006 > 2.even?
     => true
    2.7.3 :007 >
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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by 3pt14159 on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:58AM (#29251902)
That's amazing. Do you know since when? I've been doing Python development for a while.
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Re:NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads by rezonant on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:15PM (#29261335)
At least since 1.8.7 (released May 31, 2008)

EDIT: Confirmed, it was added in 1.8.7 according to Ruby Docs [1] [2]

[1] https://ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.7/Integer.html (present)

[2] https://ruby-doc.org/core-1.8.6/Integer.html (not present)

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