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.
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JavaRanch Cattle Drive, exercise 3 http://www.javaranch.com/leap.jsp
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local is_leap_year = require('leap')
describe('leap', function()
it('a known leap year', function()
assert.is_true(is_leap_year(1996))
end)
it('any old year', function()
assert.is_false(is_leap_year(1997))
end)
it('turn of the 20th century', function()
assert.is_false(is_leap_year(1900))
end)
it('turn of the 21st century', function()
assert.is_true(is_leap_year(2400))
end)
end)
return function(year)
return year % 4 == 0 and (year % 100 ~= 0 or year % 400 == 0)
end
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