Which of these is/was not a leap year (easy)

qwertyMike

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Thu Dec-27-07 07:51 PM
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Which of these is/was not a leap year (easy)

Edited on Thu Dec-27-07 07:53 PM by qwertyMike

1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008?

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femmocrat

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Thu Dec-27-07 07:55 PM
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1. Is this a trick question?

:shrug:

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qwertyMike

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Thu Dec-27-07 07:58 PM
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3. No

See post #2

Ask him/her why

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femmocrat

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Thu Dec-27-07 08:00 PM
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4. OK, I'll bite... why not 2000? It is divisible by 4.

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sniffa

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Thu Dec-27-07 07:56 PM
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2. 2000

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Thu Dec-27-07 08:06 PM
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5. Actually, 2000 WAS a leap year...

All years divisable by 4 are leap years, except those years divisable by 100. The exception is that years divisible by 400 are leap years.

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sniffa

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Thu Dec-27-07 08:14 PM
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7. i know

i just assumed this was a trick question, so went with the year the Monkey Prez was selected.

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Thu Dec-27-07 08:22 PM
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9. That was a leap backward a few hundred years, wasn't it?

:hi:

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qwertyMike

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Thu Dec-27-07 09:34 PM
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10. Right!

The years with three zeros - 1000, 2000 and presumably (if they get there) 3000 are NOT leap years. I think this is to allow for the milliseconds not accounted for by regular leap years.

BUT

WHO CARES?

Was there a year 0000? (Puleeeeeeese don't start that debate again)

Most times I don't even know what day it is.

Mike

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Thu Dec-27-07 08:08 PM
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6. They're all leap years. Check this out...

http://www.timeanddate.com/date/leapyear.html

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qwertyMike

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Thu Dec-27-07 09:41 PM
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11. Now I'm all f*cked up

Who started this thread anyway?

Oh wait - it was ME

Too much Xmas stress (ex-wife and kids and all that - glad to be HOME)

She told me she loved me after 16 years apart. I said nothing and jumped in the car and drove 230 miles home.
F*ckin' wimmen

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Thu Dec-27-07 10:48 PM
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12. Oy.

Mr GoG's ex decided she loved him again not long after we started getting serious about each other. She had split up with him once before, after they'd been married about a year. 3 years after they got back together, six months after their 2nd kid was born, she decided she loved him, but wasn't "in love" with him. :eyes: 4 years later, I met him, and 6 months after that, she told him she wanted to give their marriage another try. He considered it, for the sake of the kids, until he found out that she was planning a ski trip with her boyfriend.

The woman is a serious control freak. :(

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Midlodemocrat

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Thu Dec-27-07 08:18 PM
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8. 2008. I know this because I iz tres smart, unlike you dumbasses.

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