Leap Year Checker...even more to it

[Evan Marshall Manning]

cak3g at astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Colin Klipsch) writes:

>int is_leap_year(int year)
>{
>   if (year%4000 == 0) return FALSE;
>   else if (year%400 == 0) return TRUE;
>   else if (year%100 == 0) return FALSE;
>   else if (year%4 == 0) return TRUE;
>   else return FALSE;
>}

All other things being equal, I've got to vote for the versions that make
the tests most likely to be decisive first.  Years like 1990 will have
to undergo all of the tests above.

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