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The rule for Leap Years is: A leap year will occurr in every year that is divisible by 4, except Century Years {unless exactly divisible by 400}. During this century there will be no leap year in the year 2100 because it is not exactly divisible by 400. So there will be an 8 year period for that leap year. 2096 is a leap year, 2100 is not, 2104 is, so there is the 8 years. By the way, anyone born on February 29 is known as a Leapling.

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Leap year is every how many years?

every 4 years


How many years does a leap year come?

There are 4 years between every leap year. Correction: There are 4 years between MOST leap years. That's the case 99.25% of the time. For the other 0.75% of the time, there are 8 years between leap years.


How many years dose is LEap year occur every years?

A leap year occurs every four years. The day when a leap year hasoccurred is on February 29.


Why is every year a leap year?

Leap year usually occurs every four years.


Why do we only have a leap year every 7 years?

We do not have a leap year every 7 years. It is every 4 years. It is possible that in a sequence of 7 years, that there is only one leap year in the middle of it. For example 2000 and 2008 were leap years, so in the intervening 7 years, there was only one leap year:2001200220032004 was a leap year.200520062007In order keep the calendar years synchronized there has to be a extra day added to February every 4 years. The other years that are not leap year are called common years.


Is leap year comes every 5 years?

Leap years come every 4 years


Why do you have leap days and leap year?

we have leap years because every year there is 6 extra hours so we times it by 4 which equals 24 hours so we have a leap year every 4 years .


How many leap years have their been since 0 ad?

there has been 503 leap years. Actually, there have been 488 leap years since 0 ad. You see, every year that is divisible by four, there is a leap year, but every year that is divisible by 4 AND 100, it isn't a leap year, and every year divisible by 4, 100 AND 400 is a leap year.


How many every year do you have a leap year?

Generally, every fourth year is a leap year. However, "century" years like 1800 and 1900 are not leap years unless they are divisible by 400. So 2000 _was_ a leap year.


Was 1965 a leap year?

No, 1965 was not a leap year. Leap years occur every 4 years, with the exception of years that are divisible by 100 but not by 400.


Was this year leap year?

2012 was a leap year (leap year happens every 4 years because a year is actually 365 1/4 years)


Is 1943 a leap year?

No, 1943 is not a leap year. Leap years occur every four years, but the year 1943 is not evenly divisible by 4.