Your job: spot the correct proof, and figure out what's wrong with each of the incorrect proofs.
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Zero is not odd.
Suppose by way of contradiction that 0 is odd. Then
there is an integer $k$, such that $2*k+1 = 0$.
But adding $-1$ to
both sides, we get $2*k = -1$. This means that $-1$ is even.
However, since $-1 = 2*(-1) + 1$, $-1$ is odd, so we
have a contradiction.
Therefore $0$ is not odd.
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Zero is not odd.
Assume by way of contradiction that odd(0).
Then let $k$ be an integer such that $2*k+1=0$.
By the trichotemy law, there are three cases:
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Zero is not odd.
If zero is odd, then there needs to be a number
$k$ such that $2*k+1 = 0$, so we will use induction to
prove that for any $k$, $2*k+1 \neq 0$.
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