# Detecting if number is odd or even

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-number-is-odd-or-even/70358>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 13, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-number-is-odd-or-even/70358 "2004-11-13T01:06:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![kennyb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@kennyb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kennyb)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-number-is-odd-or-even/70358/1 "2004-11-13T01:06:34Z")

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I thought I had a nice way to do this, but it’s not always accurate for some reason. I was using (where myNumber is a number):

evenOrOdd = myNumber % 4; // 4 or any number

if (evenOrOdd == 0) {  
// Number is even  
}

Is there another way?