parity – Tarik Billa

What is the purpose of the Parity Flag on a CPU?

April 9, 2024 by Tarik

Back in the “old days” when performance was always a concern, it made more sense. It was used in communication to verify integrity (do error checking) and a substantial portion of communication was serial, which makes more use of parity than parallel communications. In any case, it was trivial for the CPU to compute it … Read more

How to know if a number is odd or even in Swift?

March 1, 2023 by Tarik

var myArray = [23, 54, 51, 98, 54, 23, 32]; for myInt: Int in myArray{ if myInt % 2 == 0 { println(“\(myInt) is even number”) } else { println(“\(myInt) is odd number”) } }