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Topic
Full Method & Practice
Question
What is the leap-year rule you must apply?
Answer
A year is a leap year if it's divisible by 4 — except century years, which must be divisible by 400.
- 2020 → ÷4 → leap. ✓
- 1900 → ÷100 but not ÷400 → not leap.
- 2000 → ÷400 → leap. ✓
- 2023 → not ÷4 → not leap.
This matters because leap years change the January and February doomsday dates (and the ⌊YY/4⌋ term already counts the leap days for the year calculation).
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Topic
Year & Century Anchors
Question
How do you turn the century anchor into the year's doomsday (the "12-remainder-quarter" method)?
Answer
Split the last two digits with 12: doomsday = anchor + q + r + s (mod 7), where q = YY÷12, r = the remainder, s = r÷4.
For year 19YY:
- q = how many whole 12s in YY.
- r = what's left over (YY − 12q).
- s = r ÷ 4 (whole part).
- Add q + r + s to the century anchor, mod 7.
This small sum captures how far the doomsday has drifted since the century's start.
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