Assignment 3: are instructions correct?

[Terence Doyle]

Hi,
In the Leap year rules it says the years evenly divisible by 4
excluding those divisible by 100 or 400 are leap years.(I thought it was just the 4-year thing myself!)
However in the examples it gives 2000 as an example of a leap year......
Comments??
I'd like to clear this up before getting nitpicked on the instructions rather than my feeble code:-)
Terry

[Richard Boren]

Hi Terry, The instructions are correct. 2000 is a leap year.
2000 / 4 = 500.
and
2000 / 100 = 20.
This blows the first check since 2000 is evenly divisible by both 4 and 100.
2000 / 400 = 5
However, this overrides the first check since 2000 is evenly divisible by 400. So 2000 is a leap year, just check a 2000 calendar

[Terence Doyle]

Hi,
I don't want you to think I'm nitpicking ...that's for you guys...
This is the text on the web page
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Write a program that will read in 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
// that's the 4-group
except every year that is evenly divisible by 100
// doesn't except mean we should take out these ones???
except every year that is evenly divisible by 400.
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My interpretation was that from the group of 4-divisible years we would have to extract those that were 100-divisible and 400-divisible.
I did express my surprise as I know 2000 is a leap year.

Terry
[This message has been edited by Terence Doyle (edited June 11, 2001).]

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

>The tricky thing here is that a leap year occurs:
>on every year that is evenly divisible by 4
>// that's the 4-group

Yep.

>except every year that is evenly divisible by 100
>// doesn't except mean we should take out these ones???

Yep. Take them out.

>except every year that is evenly divisible by 400.

This over-rides the previous exception.

See the example in the Style Guide for further enlightenment.

[Terence Doyle]

Thanks Marilyn.
Too many hours indoors looking at a screen I suppose. :-))
I'd better get back to coding that one again.
Bye,
Terry

[Johannes de Jong]

Originally posted by Terence Doyle:
In the Leap year rules it says the years evenly divisible by 4
excluding those divisible by 100 or 400 are leap years.(I thought it was just the 4-year thing myself!)

You obviously have not worked on a Y2K project