42 seconds in minutes
Conversion
42 seconds is equivalent to 0.7 minutes.[1]
Conversion formula
How to convert 42 seconds to minutes?
We know (by definition) that:
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of minutes.
Now, we cross multiply to solve for our unknown :
Conclusion:
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 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.