leap_year function

Leap year finder

This function determines whether a given year is a leap year

leap_year(x)

Arguments

• x: integer value, representing year number

Returns

boolean variable (TRUE or FALSE)

Details

Takes a year number as input, and returns TRUE if this is a leap year, and FALSE if not

Examples

leap_year(2015)  
leap_year(2016)

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year

Author(s)

Eike Luedeling, but based on pseudocode from Wikipedia