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I agree, in which case it is clearly not even. Makes me wonder about the basic or logical foundations of mathematics a lot. On the subject, I've posted a thread about Prof. Wildberger's Set Theory: Should You Believe? which is far more interesting, maybe even for those not especially interested...

http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/Views.htm "I protest against the use of infinite magnitude as something completed, which is never permissible in mathematics. Infinity is merely a way of speaking, the true meaning being a limit which certain ratios approach indefinitely close, while others...

How does that make logical or mathematical sense? Then answer: take zero, or nothing. Zip, nada, zilch. How many times does 10 go into zero? Prove your answer. It's a meaningless question. Edit: maybe the answer for all numbers is 0, since nothing can go into zero. But here we still have the...

Is 0 even? No, because it's a meaningless question. It's a number, but division here is undefined. It's a special case, because you can't divide nothing. :)