42 seconds in hours

Result

The conversion result is: 42 seconds is equivalent to 0.0116666666666667 hours.[1]


Conversion formula
How to convert 42 seconds to hours?

We know (by definition) that: 1 sec ≈ 0.00027777778 hr.

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

1 sec / 42 sec ≈ 0.00027777778 hr / x hr

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

x hr ≈ (42 sec / 1 sec) * 0.00027777778 hr x hr ≈ 0.011666666760000001 hr

Conclusion:

42 sec ≈ 0.011666666760000001 hr


Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 hour is equal to 85.7142857142857 times 42 seconds.

It can also be expressed as: 42 seconds is equal to 1 / 85.7142857142857 hours.


Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: forty-two seconds is about zero point zero one hours, or alternatively, a hour is about eighty-five point seven zero times forty-two seconds.



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.