Even/Odd? comparison primitive

[wired]

I tend to use the Quotient and Remainder for determining whether a number is even or odd. It clutters up the block diagram with the primitive, a constant, and a comparison.  How about one (or two) of those nifty little triangles with a number in and a boolean out to indicate if the number is even (or odd)?  It seems I need this function more frequently than one would expect, and it would be a simple 'new feature'.

[G-Money]

I'm changing the title of this idea to be more of a statement instead of a question. Some people might see this as a support question instead of an idea because of it.

[G-Money]

Would you expect this to work with all numeric data types or would I32 be the best use case for this you think?

[crossrulz]

If this is going to be done, it should be polymorphic to work with all of the integer types (U8, I8, etc.).  I personally don't see a use for the floating point types.

On a personal note, I think NI has more important things to worry about than this.

[dthor]

It would be nice to have one that supports arrays of numerics as well: array in returns array of boolean out.

I have my own little subVI for this, but it only accepts I32. Luckily I don't care about that particular coercion dot... Maybe eventually I'll get around to making it polymorphic, but I doubt it! 

[altenbach]

Instead of Quotiend&Remainder, I simply do a bitwise AND with a diagram constant of 1. The result is either 0 (=even) or 1 (=odd). You can wire this directly to a case (and make the cases 0 and 1) or add a "=0" or "!=0" of you want a boolean.

Wrap it into a subVI if needed.

[wired]

I've used the AND approach as well. I just really have an affinity for the triangles, I guess 😉

Since NI has stated that its near term focus is stability, not enhancements, I figured this would be a good fit for their stated intent - not much time or risk to develop, but an added feature nonetheless.

[stbe]

... or just use the "rotate right with carry" which returns the LSB

[wired]

Picture time...

[JasonD_at_UML]

If I had a nickel for every Loop i with a Quot/Rem =0 I've coded over the years...

I agree on something small for testing INT evens and odds.

[Broken_Arrow]

This is another one of those ideas where - yes, it is easy to do using a few dodgy bits making a fine bit of kit, etc... but why not have a primative? Kudo.