- 3 years
Incoming trademark lawsuit from iSeven, the API that tells you if a number is seven or not
- Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish3 years
If anyone wants a more efficient local version for php:
function isEven(int $number): bool { ${1} = false; ${2} = true; while ($number > 2) { $number -= 2; } return $$number; }Edit: Now with support for large numbers!
function isEven(int|string $number): bool { ${1} = false; ${2} = true; while (bccomp($number, 2) === 1) { $number = bcsub($number, 2); } $number = (int) $number; return $$number; }Edit 2: someone asked for an ad-supported version, here you go!
function isEven(int|string $number): bool { ${1} = false; ${2} = true; while (bccomp($number, 2) === 1) { error_log('Buy isEvenCoin, the hottest new cryptocurrency!'); $number = bcsub($number, 2); } $number = (int) $number; return $$number; }Side note, no more suggestions please, this is getting quite long.
- 3 years
I fucking love that you managed to use var-vars in a completely key and necessary manner.
But please do adhere to the API TOS and throw in an
error_log('Buy isEvenCoin, the hottest new cryptocurrency!'); - 3 years
This looks pretty inefficient. You should manually unroll that loop to improve performance.
- 3 years
Oh, bummer, my number isn’t supported by the free version:
https://api.isevenapi.xyz/api/iseven/8764389587485736749956772984692357867345989845699872561/
- 3 years
Just divide that number by two until it’s small enough to make the request under the free version.
- 3 years
That’s not even supported by the enterprise version. You’re going to need a special agreement with the iseven people to support numbers like that
- 3 years
Easy workaround, just test the last digit. If it is even, the entire number is even, else odd.
- 3 years
That’s preposterous! Next time you’ll tell me the language I’m using has a builtin operator that test if a number can be divided by another!
- 3 years
Only way it could be better is if they threw “AI” in there somewhere.
- 3 years
With the new AI integration, you can get smart isEven results that return the correct answer 90% of the time and a more creative solution 20% of the time.
- 3 years
im glad that people are out there building the web services we truly need.
- 3 years
The errors are great https://api.isevenapi.xyz/api/iseven/1.5
~~Sadly it’s not always accurate https://api.isevenapi.xyz/api/iseven/0~~ Edit: nevermind I’m an idiot
It’s also greatly lacking in number support https://api.isevenapi.xyz/api/iseven/one
- 3 years
Is even states that it only returns true for even, passing in an odd number is technically unsupported.
- 3 years
I resent that there is a ruby developer included in there.
isEvenis not idiomatic naming. You should be using#even?from the standard library- 3 years
Sorry sir, most JS developers don’t use standard library functions. We just use npm packages wherever possible.



