Even Explained

Even may refer to:

General

Even (given name), a Norwegian male personal name
Even (surname), a Breton surname
Even (people), an ethnic group from Siberia and Russian Far East
- Even language, a language spoken by the Evens
Odd and Even, a solitaire game which is played with two decks of playing cards
Evening, the period of a day that begins at the end of daylight and overlaps with the beginning of night

In mathematics, the term even is used in several senses related to odd:
- even and odd numbers, an integer is even if dividing by two yields an integer
- even and odd functions, a function is even if f(−x) = f(x) for all x
- even and odd permutations, a permutation of a finite set is even if it is composed of an even number of transpositions
- Singly even number, an integer divisible by 2 but not divisible by 4
Even code, if the Hamming weight of all of a binary code's codewords is even