30 seconds in minutes

Result

The conversion result is: 30 seconds is equivalent to 0.5 minutes.[1]


Conversion formula
How to convert 30 seconds to minutes?

We know (by definition) that: 1 sec ≈ 0.016666667 min.

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

1 sec / 30 sec ≈ 0.016666667 min / x min

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

x min ≈ (30 sec / 1 sec) * 0.016666667 min x min ≈ 0.5000000099999999 min

Conclusion:

30 sec ≈ 0.5000000099999999 min


Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 minute is equal to 2 times 30 seconds.

It can also be expressed as: 30 seconds is equal to 1 / 2 minutes.


Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: thirty seconds is about zero minutes, or alternatively, a minute is about zero times thirty 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.