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  2. Leap year problem - Wikipedia

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    The following Windows C++ code is an example of a Category 1 leap year bug. It will work properly until the current date becomes February 29 of a leap year. Then, it will modify st to represent February 29 of a common year, a date which does not actually exist. Passing st to any function that accepts a SYSTEMTIME struct as a parameter will ...

  3. Zeller's congruence - Wikipedia

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    The fraction 13/5 = 2.6 and the floor function have that effect; the denominator of 5 sets a period of 5 months. The overall function, mod 7 {\displaystyle \operatorname {mod} \,7} , normalizes the result to reside in the range of 0 to 6, which yields the index of the correct day of the week for the date being analyzed.

  4. Time formatting and storage bugs - Wikipedia

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    On 5 January 1975, the 12-bit field that had been used for dates in the TOPS-10 operating system for DEC PDP-10 computers overflowed, in a bug known as "DATE75". The field value was calculated by taking the number of years since 1964, multiplying by 12, adding the number of months since January, multiplying by 31, and adding the number of days since the start of the month; putting 2 12 − 1 ...

  5. Dominical letter - Wikipedia

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    Leap years have two letters, so for January and February calculate the day of the week for January 1 and for March to December calculate the day of the week for October 1. Leap years are all years that divide exactly by four, with the following exceptions: Gregorian calendar – all years divisible by 100, except those that divide exactly by 400.

  6. 2024 is a leap year, but why? Here’s the science behind the ...

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    A year may be a leap year if it is evenly divisible by 4. Years divisible by 100 (century years such as 1900 or 2000) cannot be leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. (For this reason ...

  7. What’s the point of a Leap Year? Why 2024 brings 29 days of ...

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    The rule is that if the year is divisible by 100 and not divisible by 400, the leap year is skipped. The year 2000 was a leap year, for example, but the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not. The ...

  8. List of numerical libraries - Wikipedia

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    ALGLIB is an open source / commercial numerical analysis library with C++ version; Armadillo is a C++ linear algebra library (matrix and vector maths), aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use. [1] It employs template classes, and has optional links to BLAS and LAPACK. The syntax is similar to MATLAB.

  9. What is a leap year? Everything to know about February's ...

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    Here's the confusing part: According to the NIST, century leap years are only leap years if they can be evenly divided by 400. So, for example, 1700, 1800 and 1900 weren't leap years. And 2100?