prime_number_314159

You can just bitwise AND those with ...000000001 (for however many bits are in your number). If the result is 0, then the number is even, and if it's 1, then the number is odd. This works for negative numbers because it discards the negative signing bit.

Then you should return false, unless the remainder is also greater than or equal to the twenty second root of 4194304. Note, that I've only checked up to 4194304 to make sure this works, so if you need bigger numbers, you'll have to validate on your own.

When I was in college, our sportsball team won a game against the other guy's sportsball team by not many points. Many hundreds of students started a chant going out of the sportsball arena, and four freshmen decided to light a couch on fire, apparently thinking they'd just blend in. The police were there immediately, firefighters put out the couch in a few minutes, and they all got hit with fines.

In short, I think you're exactly right, and most sportsball fans just want to be loud and drink.

The two numbers in the text aren't equal. The first is 20 billion trillion trillion, and the second is 125 times larger.

Edit: I'm bad at counting zeros, too. The first number is correct (20 decillion), and the second is wrong (2.5 undecillion)

Any reasonably powerful god could make a non-Euclidean spacetime in which the points equidistant from a central point also form 4 straight line segments of equal length that meet at right angles.

I also think the classic rock so heavy it can't be lifted fails, for the same reason that an omnipotent god could clearly commit suicide, if it wanted to (and once it did, it would no longer have the capability to perform other actions).

The omniscience thing is harder, because of things like incompleteness theorem, but I don't think I can really describe what it means to know everything in the first place. "Able to provide a true, and comprehensive answer to any question for which a true, and comprehensive answer is possible" doesn't seem to give any contradictions, but as you mention has the feel of dancing around all the hard issues.

When a monopoly is faced with a smaller, more efficient competitor, they cut prices to keep people from switching, or buy the new competitor, make themselves more efficient, and increase profits.

When Steam was faced with smaller competition that charged lower prices, they did - nothing. They're not the leader because of a trick, or clever marketing, but because they give both publishers and gamers a huge stack of things they want.

A reason is a motivation to do a thing. An excuse is a reason to do the wrong thing (though not necessarily an inherently wrong thing - just anything that the other person thinks was wrong).

This makes for way better TV than if the camera simply worked. It's a mistake that a human would probably never make, and definitely not persist in making.

That's the only way to be certain you won't be jumped end passant.

Ha! Unlike (some of) you plebs, I live in a very exclusive time zone with less than a billion people in it.

As long as you can maintain a steady stream of ejaculate, it'll feel the same for her.

A real journalist would've posted spectrophotometry results. Those are generally quite cheap and fast.