42 seconds in minutes

Result

The conversion result is: 42 seconds is equivalent to 0.7 minutes.[1]


Conversion formula
How to convert 42 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 / 42 sec ≈ 0.016666667 min / x min

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

x min ≈ (42 sec / 1 sec) * 0.016666667 min x min ≈ 0.700000014 min

Conclusion:

42 sec ≈ 0.700000014 min


Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 minute is equal to 1.42857142857143 times 42 seconds.

It can also be expressed as: 42 seconds is equal to 1 / 1.42857142857143 minutes.


Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: forty-two seconds is about zero minutes, or alternatively, a minute is about one point four two 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.