Talk:Parity (computer science)

Redirect to parity bit
This page contains a few musings on the meaning of parity in other contexts, and not much about its use in computer science. I propose that this page be changed to be a redirect to the existing high-quality article Parity bit. I have not added the merge template to that page, because I don't think there's any content here that needs to be merged into that page. Nickjg (talk) 18:12, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Some editor drives by and spends less than an hour making 7 edits on February 6, then this %#@% sits here for months. It should just redirect to disambiguation.  We also have parity (mathematics), parity of zero, parity flag, parity file. etc. – Wbm1058 (talk) 02:01, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Zero is even, period... I think
From the article:


 * For most purposes, and definitely in terms of computer science, zero can be considered to be an even number (see Parity of zero), although mathematically, this is not necessarily correct in all circumstances.

One reference for this statement is a dead link, the other is not web-accessible. Other articles on Wikipedia, including Parity (mathematics), say zero is even, without qualification. I realize Wikipedia is not a reliable source for itself, but I think the present article is wrong. Can someone find a reliable source that says so? Thanks. --BlueGuy213 (talk) 21:00, 4 June 2012 (UTC)