i think its not actually, but///
8-421-674-8974 is not 48-421-674-8974

same

Your code timing out is not an issue. Issues are bugs in the kata. Please read this: https://docs.codewars.com/training/troubleshooting/

Appreciate your trying to help.

If people want to solve the problem, they can do those steps themselves.

Well .. there are some strong hints in the description ..

But hey, aren't all kata essentially puzzles?

But we can invent something non-binary, fractional if you will, and compare their oddness anyway.

Aha. So this kinda is a puzzle, then, right? :P You have to figure out how to do this "comparing oddness"...

A million is a lot. Right?

A gazillion is a lot. Right?

Now compare their "lotness" - their size.

You can't ( gazillion isn't an actual number ), so we invent some way to compare them anyway. The outcome will depend on what we invented; there isn't a priori an obvious way.

3 is odd. 5 is odd. Compare their oddness. Normally, it's an either / or, black / white, odd / even. All odd numbers are equally odd. But we can invent something non-binary, fractional if you will, and compare their oddness anyway.

Sorry, I still don't understand. "more odd" does not make sense to me.

Odder: "when for some n, m is more odd than for another's. Recursively."

"Recursively."

Yes.