billwanjohi's solution to Space Age on the Scala track

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Solution

Given an age in seconds, calculate how old someone would be on:

Earth: orbital period 365.25 Earth days, or 31557600 seconds
Mercury: orbital period 0.2408467 Earth years
Venus: orbital period 0.61519726 Earth years
Mars: orbital period 1.8808158 Earth years
Jupiter: orbital period 11.862615 Earth years
Saturn: orbital period 29.447498 Earth years
Uranus: orbital period 84.016846 Earth years
Neptune: orbital period 164.79132 Earth years

So if you were told someone were 1,000,000,000 seconds old, you should be able to say that they're 31.69 Earth-years old.

If you're wondering why Pluto didn't make the cut, go watch this youtube video.

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Partially inspired by Chapter 1 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial. http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=01

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SpaceAgeTest.scala

import org.scalatest.{Matchers, FunSuite}

/** @version 1.1.0 */
class SpaceAgeTest extends FunSuite with Matchers {

  test("age on Earth") {
    SpaceAge.onEarth(1000000000) should be (31.69 +- 0.01)
  }

  test("age on Mercury") {
    pending
    SpaceAge.onMercury(2134835688) should be (280.88 +- 0.01)
  }

  test("age on Venus") {
    pending
    SpaceAge.onVenus(189839836) should be (9.78 +- 0.01)
  }

  test("age on Mars") {
    pending
    SpaceAge.onMars(2.329871239E9) should be (39.25 +- 0.01)
  }

  test("age on Jupiter") {
    pending
    SpaceAge.onJupiter(901876382) should be (2.41 +- 0.01)
  }

  test("age on Saturn") {
    pending
    SpaceAge.onSaturn(3.0E9) should be (3.23 +- 0.01)
  }

  test("age on Uranus") {
    pending
    SpaceAge.onUranus(3.210123456E9) should be (1.21 +- 0.01)
  }

  test("age on Neptune") {
    pending
    SpaceAge.onNeptune(8.210123456E9) should be (1.58 +- 0.01)
  }
}

object SpaceAge {
  def onEarth(seconds: Double) = seconds / 31557600
  def onMercury(seconds: Double) = onEarth(seconds) / 0.2408467
  def onVenus(seconds: Double) = onEarth(seconds) / 0.61519726
  def onMars(seconds: Double) = onEarth(seconds) / 1.8808158
  def onJupiter(seconds: Double) = onEarth(seconds) / 11.862615
  def onSaturn(seconds: Double) = onEarth(seconds) / 29.447498
  def onUranus(seconds: Double) = onEarth(seconds) / 84.016846
  def onNeptune(seconds: Double) = onEarth(seconds) / 164.79132
}

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