59 minutes in hours
Conversion
59 minutes is equivalent to 0.983333333333333 hours.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 59 minutes to hours?
We know (by definition) that:
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of hours.
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown :
Conclusion:
Conversion in the opposite direction
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 hour is equal to 1.01694915254237 times 59 minutes.
It can also be expressed as: 59 minutes is equal to hours.
Approximation
An approximate numerical result would be: fifty-nine minutes is about zero point nine eight hours, or alternatively, a hour is about one point zero two times fifty-nine minutes.
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.