Convert coordinates or angles between decimal degrees and degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) format.
Convert coordinates or angles between decimal degrees and degrees-minutes-seconds (DMS) format.
A degree splits into 60 minutes, and each minute splits into 60 seconds — the same base-60 structure clocks use. Converting to DMS peels off the whole-number degrees, then converts the remaining fraction into minutes, then converts what's left of that into seconds.