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Leap
Write a program that will take a year and report if it is a leap year.
The tricky thing here is that a leap year occurs:
on every year that is evenly divisible by 4
except every year that is evenly divisible by 100
unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400
For example, 1997 is not a leap year, but 1996 is. 1900 is not a leap year, but 2000 is.
If your language provides a method in the standard library that does this look-up, pretend it doesn't exist and implement it yourself.
Notes
For a delightful, four minute explanation of the whole leap year phenomenon, go watch this youtube video.
For installation and learning resources, refer to the exercism help page.
For running the tests provided, you will need make
. Open a terminal
window and run the following from the exercise directory:
make test
And you should now be able to see the results of the test suite for the exercise.
Source
JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 3 view source