Hi! mark,   
      
   On Wed, 08 Feb 12, you wrote to me:   
      
    PQ>> How about a bit of something in some old Turbo-C...   
    ml> pretty neat... but it looks like it is missing something...   
      
   Not just neat!  It was a part of a programming assignment that helped me win   
   an 'honours' pass for the language at a tech college... 20-something years   
   ago.  However...   
      
    ml> function leapyear( year : integer) : boolean; { Returns true if YEAR    
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    ml>   Reference : Introductory Astronomy and Astrophysics, page 61   
    ml>   By E. v. P. Smith and K. C. Jacobs - (C) 1973 W. B. Saunders Co.}   
    ml> { By Jud McCranie, Jan. 4, 1987 } { Revised Jan. 5, 1987 }   
      
   Now, that's neat.  ;-)  I didn't have that reference available and was only   
   able to verify date information from an encyclopedia, with a table that   
   covered from 1582 to 3099.  That was sufficient for the assignment (and was   
   probably another bonus point in my favour, as I was the only one in the class   
   to verify the output thusly).  Even though the tutor was an amateur   
   mathematician he didn't want to belabour the point with a bunch of rowdy,   
   smelly students who were only in it for the computing credits.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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