Conversion of Degrees, Minutes to Its Half, Quarter etc...

Question

29°18' devided by 2 I mean ((29°18)/2). How to convert degrees minutes to its half (1/2), quarter (1/4)?

Answer 1

60 minutes in a degree, like 60 minutes in an hour

Borrow 1 degree and convert it to minutes to get 28 degrees and 78 minutes. Now divide by 2

getting 28/2 degrees and 78/2 minutes

or 14 degrees and 39 minutes

If you want 1/4 then the answer is 28/4 degrees and 78/4 minutes

or 7 degrees, 19 1/2 minutes At this point you might stop or if you want

make the 1/2 into seconds with the final answer as

7 degrees 19 minutes and 30 seconds (60 seconds in a minute, like clock time)