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pash
3610 days ago
Yep, I looked it up too, and indeed
par
and
impar
seem to have been the standard Latin terms for
even
and
odd
in the mathematics of the era. See, e.g., Clavius's 1574 translation of Euclid's
Elements
[0].
0.
https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ks7AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA...