Question

How to calculate a leap year?

Answer 1

Calculation of a leap year

Leap year : A leap year has $366$ number of days in total, and there is a difference of $4$ between two consecutive leap years.

To calculate a leap year, divide the given year by $4$, if it is completely divisible by $4$, it is a leap year.

Examples:

1. Check $2042$ will be a leap year or not?

Now divide $2042$ by $4$, we get $2$ as a remainder which means $2042$ is not divisible by $4$. Thus $2042$ is not a leap year

2. Check $1996$ will be a leap year or not?

Now divide $1996$ by $4$, we get $0$ as a remainder which means $1996$ is divisible by $4$. Thus $1996$ is a leap year

Hence, we can calculate leap year by dividing it by $4$