Let's start with the popular-but-wrong response; the one that would get the QI
alarm awooga-ing: "it's neither!"
Wrong!
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Is Zero Odd or Even?
It's been a while since I posted something mathsy, but I've seen a few people
being wrong about this one lately, so here goes...
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