Q: Is 123,036,321 an Even Number?
A: No, the number 123,036,321 is not an even number - it is an odd number.
An even number is any integer (a whole number) that can be divided by 2. If you can cleanly divide a number by 2, the number is even. If you divide by 2 and there is a remainder left, then the number is odd.
Let's try that calculation...
123,036,321 ÷ 2 = 61,518,160.5
Notice the number is not a whole number and has a remainder (the .5)? That means the number is an odd number.
Any number that ends in 2, 4, 6 or 8 is even. If the number is larger than 10, if it ends in 0 it is also an even number. They are even because they can be divided by 2 evenly.
Here are more examples of even and odd numbers in sequence:
| 123,036,319 | 123,036,320 | 123,036,322 | 123,036,323 |
| odd | even | even | odd |