Re: Definition of a Leap Year????

In article <5orcf2$v6m_at_lantana.singnet.com.sg>,   "Seah Yong Seng" <ysseah_at_mbox2.singnet.com.sg> wrote:
>
> Any body can help me regarding the abovementioned topic!!!
>
> What is the definition of a Leap Year?
> Is it able to divisible by 4 is a Leap Year?
> Is it a centry (1700, 1800, 1900, 2000) not a Leap Year?
> Is it centry that able to divisible by 400 a Leap Year?
>
> Please help me, as I need to know inorder to differentiate whether year
> 2000 is a Leap Year?

Year 2000 is a leap year, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not. Read about it at http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/gregorian_calendar.html

Usually years divisible by 4 are leap years, except for centuries which are not divisible by 400.

Steve Cosner
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