🔒 Leap year calculation

[signal kite]

I am confused as to what I am supposed to change in this exercise.

[green wharf]

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[echo canopy]

You aren't accounting just for ordinary years divided by 4, you've made your conditions too specific

[neon jungle]

ur correct in ur own way , the problem is with ques , the question assumes that only numbers above 400 will be asked

so if u go for a no. lower than 400 , code says remainder is not zero and hence it is not a leap year

[echo canopy]

that's not quite the issue. A leap year calculator should work for any number above 0

[neon jungle]

ur conditions doesnt allow it to work below 400 then

[covert sundial]

a leap year is a year which is a multiple of 4

and as fashoomp said it should work for any number above 0 (even below 0 would work but wouldnt make sense)

[neon jungle]

yes hes right , but the condition of divisibility by 100 and 400 is assumed in the question

[echo canopy]

that's how leap years work

any number divisible by 4, except for 100s, unless it's divisible by 400

1500 and 1700 are not leap years, even though they're divisible by 4

but 1600 is

[neon jungle]

hmm

I see

[signal kite]

ah okay thanks, this seems to work now:

year = int(input("Please type in a year: " ))

if year % 4 == 0 and year % 100 == 0:
    if year % 400 == 0:
        print("That year is a leap year.")
    else:
        print("That year is not a leap year.")

elif year % 4 == 0:        
        print("That year is a leap year.")

else: 
    print("That year is not a leap year.")

[echo canopy]

yeah, that's looking good now

[green wharf]

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