Peter> I'm a little worried about year 2K. They seem to count it as a
Peter> leap year. Is that correct? I thought it was |4, except for
Peter> |100, except for |400, but I don't know the approximation after
Peter> that.
There is no more after that.
Peter> As I recall this has been hashed over several times in
Peter> year 2K groups,
and many other groups besides.... :(
Peter> and the conclusion ws that school texts are
Peter> usually wrong, and the american constitution definitely is. Or
Peter> vice versa (on this issue).
I never saw a text that got it wrong -- they all had it essentially
just like you wrote it, though were perhaps a bit more verbose. :)
And neither the constitution itself, nor any of its amendments mention
leap year formulae (confirmed w/ a grep(1) for the regex 'four|leap').
(Cf. <URL:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/const.html>
<URL:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/bor.html>
<URL:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/amend.html>)
-JimC
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