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- From: eru@scruznet.com (eru)
- Newsgroups: lobby,comp.lang.c,seattle.general,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: It's leap year day today!
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 17:19:01 GMT
- Organization: Moria
- Message-ID: <4h9vu5$i9q@news.scruz.net>
- References: <DnK24F.HDn@eskimo.com> <DnLFEr.1EJ@csc.liv.ac.uk>
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- In article <DnLFEr.1EJ@csc.liv.ac.uk>, fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris) says:
- >
- >In article <DnK24F.HDn@eskimo.com>,
- >scs@eskimo.com (Steve Summit) writes:
- >>[I'm posting this to several miscellaneous newsgroups, although
- >>it's not particularly relevant to any of them. Please note that
- >>I've redirected followups.]
-
- .......Many lines deleted
-
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- >I hate to say this, but what a total waste of bandwidth!
- >
- >The entire above posting can be reduced to this:
- > If a year is divisible by 4, it's a leap year.... UNLESS...
- > it's divisible by 100, in which case it isn't.... UNLESS...
- > it's divisible by 400, in which case it is.
- > So, 1984, 1996, etc *are*; 1800, 1900 etc *are not*; 1600, 2000 etc *are*.
- >
- >For some reason Mr. Steve Summit seems to think this is a revelation worthy
- >of over 40 lines of dicussion. Can't think why... maybe it's a troll(?)
- >
- >-FISH- ><>
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-
- Fish,
- You want to talk about wasted bandwidth? Your reply was even a higher cost.
- Why couldn't you delete most of the offending lines and saved the long distance
- charges? See above example. Maybe Steve was not trolling, but you were?
-
- Robin E. Ziegler
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