Even and odd numbers appear early in history of mathematics [9], as they serve to describe the property of objects easily noticeable by human eye
On the other hand, due to the use of decimal system, divisibility by 2 is often regarded as the property of the last digit of a number (similarly to divisibility by 5, but not to divisibility by any other primes), which probably restricts its use for any advanced purposes.
The article aims to extend the definition of parity towards its notion in binary representation of integers, thus making an alternative to the articles grouped in