Evaluating angles in dms

What do you want to do?  Convert it to decimal degree?

60 minutes in each degree    60 seconds in each minute  (this 3600 seconds in each degree)

Example    Convet   35 degrees 18' 24 "   do decimal degrees   ( ' symbol is minute symbol   " is seconds symbol)

  35 +  18/60  + 24/3600 = 35.3066 degrees  

Multiply this by pi/180 to get  . 6162 Radians