Given a year, report if it is a leap year.
The tricky thing here is that a leap year in the Gregorian calendar 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.
Though our exercise adopts some very simple rules, there is more to learn!
For a delightful, four minute explanation of the whole leap year phenomenon, go watch this youtube video.
The DateTime class in F# provides a built-in IsLeapYear method which you should pretend doesn't exist for the purposes of implementing this exercise.
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JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 3 http://www.javaranch.com/leap.jsp
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// This file was auto-generated based on version 1.4.0 of the canonical data.
module LeapTest
open FsUnit.Xunit
open Xunit
open Leap
[<Fact>]
let ``Year not divisible by 4: common year`` () =
leapYear 2015 |> should equal false
[<Fact(Skip = "Remove to run test")>]
let ``Year divisible by 4, not divisible by 100: leap year`` () =
leapYear 1996 |> should equal true
[<Fact(Skip = "Remove to run test")>]
let ``Year divisible by 100, not divisible by 400: common year`` () =
leapYear 2100 |> should equal false
[<Fact(Skip = "Remove to run test")>]
let ``Year divisible by 400: leap year`` () =
leapYear 2000 |> should equal true
[<Fact(Skip = "Remove to run test")>]
let ``Year divisible by 200, not divisible by 400: common year`` () =
leapYear 1800 |> should equal falsemodule Leap
let leapYear (year: int): bool =
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