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OddQ

Status: Stable

documented, exercised by the test suite and/or worked examples, with no known limitations recorded.

Description

OddQ[n] gives True if n is an odd integer (Integer or BigInt), False otherwise.

Examples

No verified examples yet for this function.

Implementation notes

builtin_oddq (src/core.c) returns True for an EXPR_INTEGER with n % 2 != 0, uses mpz_odd_p for an EXPR_BIGINT, and returns False for everything else.

Attributes: Protected.

Implementation status

Stable — documented, exercised by the test suite and/or worked examples, with no known limitations recorded.

References

Notes & additional examples

Worked examples

In[1]:= OddQ[7]
Out[1]= True

In[2]:= OddQ[4]
Out[2]= False

Notes

OddQ returns True only for odd integers (Integer or BigInt); any non-integer argument gives False.