Leap Year Checker.
John Baldwin
johnb at srchtec.UUCP
Fri Sep 28 08:59:47 AEST 1990
(Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems) writes:
|In article <24700010 at sunc1>, mccaugh at sunc1.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
|> Ordinarily, a leap-year is a multiple of four, so that--given leap-year y--
|> (y%4 == 0) ought to indicate if y designates a leap-year.
|Bzzzzzt! Nope, but thanks for playing. Vanna has lovely gifts for you.
|Every leap year is divisible by four, but not every year divisible by
|four is a leap year. Since the 18th century (I think 1752, but an
|earlier century in R.C. countries), the algorithm has been...
BRRRAPPP. Sorry, your time's up.
What do we have for the programmers, Johnny?
The date was 1582.
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