Q: Is 72,117,539 an Odd Number?
A: Yes, the number 72,117,539 is an odd number.
An odd number is any integer (a whole number) that cannot be divided by 2 evenly. If you divide a number by 2 and there is a remainder left, the number is odd. If you divide by 2 and there is not a remainder left, then the number is even.
Let's try that calculation...
72,117,539 ÷ 2 = 36,058,769.5
Notice the number is not a whole number and has a remainder (the .5)? That means the number is an odd number because it cannot be divided by 2 without a remainder.
Any number that ends in 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 is an odd number. This is because the number cannot be divided by 2 evenly.
Here are more examples of even and odd numbers in sequence:
| 72,117,537 | 72,117,538 | 72,117,540 | 72,117,541 |
| odd | even | even | odd |