This code would run a lot faster as a hash table look up.

This joke was not written by the dude pictured. The author wrote a book of funny code jokes.

Y’all laugh but this man has amazing code coverage numbers.

Can you imagine being a TA and having to grade somebody’s hw and you get this first thing? lmao

def is_even(n: int) -> bool:
    if n < 0:
        return is_even(-n)
    r = True
    for _ in range(n):
        r = not r
    return r

To be fair, the question is “Write a function that simultaneously determines if the number is even and works as a timer”

This is YandereDev levels of bad.

pro hacker tip: you can optimize this by using “num” for the variable name instead of “number”

Plot twist: they used a script to generate that code.

def even(n: int) -> bool:
    code = ""
    for i in range(0, n+1, 2):
        code += f"if {n} == {i}:\n out = True\n"
        j = i+1
        code += f"if {n} == {j}:\n out = False\n"
    local_vars = {}
    exec(code, {}, local_vars)
    return local_vars["out"]

scalable version

You don’t get it, it runs on a smart fridge so there’s no reason to change it

I hope that the language’s ints are at most 32 bits. For 8 bits it could even be written by hand & the source code for a 32 bit version would only take up avg_line_len * 4GiB space for the source code of the function. But it might take a bit of time to compile a version that supports the full range of 64 or 128 bit ints.

The end user yearns for their machine to be utilized fully, so instead of that, you can import full deepseek model to do the task

I’ll join in

const isEven = (n) 
  => !["1","3","5","7","9"]
    .includes(Math.round(n).toString().slice(-1)) 

bool isEven(int value) {
  return (int)(((double)value / 2.0) % 1.0) * 100) != 50;
}