42 millimeters in meters

Conversion

42 millimeters is equivalent to 0.042 meters.[1]

Conversion formula
How to convert 42 millimeters to meters?

We know (by definition) that: 1⁢mm = 0.001⁢m

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

1 ⁢ mm 42 ⁢ mm = 0.001 ⁢ m x ⁢ m

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

x ⁢ m = 42 ⁢ mm 1 ⁢ mm * 0.001 ⁢ m → x ⁢ m = 0.042 ⁢ m

Conclusion: 42 ⁢ mm = 0.042 ⁢ m

42 millimeters is equivalent to 0.042 meters

Conversion in the opposite direction

The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 meter is equal to 23.8095238095238 times 42 millimeters.

It can also be expressed as: 42 millimeters is equal to 1 23.8095238095238 meters.

Approximation

An approximate numerical result would be: forty-two millimeters is about zero point zero four meters, or alternatively, a meter is about twenty-three point eight zero times forty-two millimeters.

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.

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