42 kilometers in centimeters

Result

The conversion result is: 42 kilometers is equivalent to 4200000 centimeters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 42 kilometers to centimeters?

We know (by definition) that: 1 km = 100000 cm.

We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of centimeters.

1 km / 42 km = 100000 cm / x cm

Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown x:

x cm = (42 km / 1 km) * 100000 cm → x cm = 4200000 cm

Conclusion:

42 km = 4200000 cm

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 centimeter is equal to 2.38095238095238e-07 times 42 kilometers.

It can also be expressed as: 42 kilometers is equal to 1 / 2.38095238095238e-07 centimeters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: forty-two kilometers is about four million, two hundred thousand centimeters, or alternatively, a centimeter is about zero times forty-two kilometers.

Footnotes

[1] The precision is 15 significant digits (fourteen digits to the right of the decimal point).

Results may contain small errors due to the use of floating point arithmetic.