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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

This is the way. Modulo takes too long to compute, bitwise compare should be a lot faster.

return !(number &amp; 0x1);

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

oh shit yo

this comment chain is pretty awesome, I learned a lot from this thanks!