From: Mica Koizumi <monkeymica@...>
Date: 2010-10-02T03:29:29+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby, Looking for Help With Basic Program

Thanks Rick -

But the part that confuses me is:

while (year1.to_i <= year2.to_i)

Shouldn't that prevent 1992 from being printed?

Also - re: yeap year being divisible by 100 - I do plan on adding that 
in after I get past this hump. Thanks for the input.


Rick Denatale wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mica Koizumi <monkeymica@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>> if year1.to_i % 4 == 0
>> �leapyear = year1.to_i + 4
>> �puts leapyear
>> end
> 
> This says 'paraphrasing"
> 
> if year1 is a leapyear then print year1 + 4
> 
> 1988 is the only leap year between 1987 and 1990.
> 
> 1988 + 4 is 1992
> 
> 
> BTW, it's not enough for a year to be divisible by 4 to be a leap year.
> 
> Years divisible by 100 are not leap years (even though they are all
> divisible by 4) unless they are also divisible by 400.
> 
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