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1 # Space Age 2 3 Welcome to Space Age on Exercism's Perl 5 Track. 4 If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`. 5 6 ## Instructions 7 8 Given an age in seconds, calculate how old someone would be on: 9 10 - Mercury: orbital period 0.2408467 Earth years 11 - Venus: orbital period 0.61519726 Earth years 12 - Earth: orbital period 1.0 Earth years, 365.25 Earth days, or 31557600 seconds 13 - Mars: orbital period 1.8808158 Earth years 14 - Jupiter: orbital period 11.862615 Earth years 15 - Saturn: orbital period 29.447498 Earth years 16 - Uranus: orbital period 84.016846 Earth years 17 - Neptune: orbital period 164.79132 Earth years 18 19 So if you were told someone were 1,000,000,000 seconds old, you should 20 be able to say that they're 31.69 Earth-years old. 21 22 If you're wondering why Pluto didn't make the cut, go watch [this 23 YouTube video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_2gbGXzFbs). 24 25 ## Source 26 27 ### Created by 28 29 - @bistik 30 31 ### Contributed to by 32 33 - @kytrinyx 34 - @m-dango 35 - @rfilipo 36 37 ### Based on 38 39 Partially inspired by Chapter 1 in Chris Pine's online Learn to Program tutorial. - http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=01