# Math Help - need help please!

1. ## need help please!

what is angle in degrees, minutes and seconds of 0.0015

2. 0.0015 what?

3. Originally Posted by JAMESANANE
what is angle in degrees, minutes and seconds of 0.0015
Radians? If so it would be $.0015\cdot\frac{180}{\pi}\approx{.086^{\circ}}$

Do you know how to get minutes and seconsd from taht?

4. Originally Posted by JAMESANANE
what is angle in degrees, minutes and seconds of 0.0015
I forget the process on how to do it, but the calculator gives that $.0015$ in DMS is $0^{\circ} 5'9.397''$.

Hope that this somewhat helps!

5. Originally Posted by Chris L T521
I forget the process on how to do it, but the calculator gives that $.0015$ in DMS is $0^{\circ} 5'9.397''$.

Hope that this somewhat helps!
Sorry, I'm wrong, but I figured out what we need to do.

Since .0015 is in degrees, we want to convert it to DMS.

Here are somethings we should know before converting:

In a full circle there are 360 degrees. Each degree is split up into 60 parts, each part being 1/60 of a degree. These parts are called minutes. Each minute is split up into 60 parts, each part being 1/60 of a minute. These parts are called seconds.(source: Degrees, Minutes, Seconds)

Let's see how many degrees there are in .0015 degrees:

rounding, we get 0, thus we state that it is $0^{\circ}$.

Now let's see how many minutes are in .0015 degrees:

$.0015\times 60=.09$

This is very small, so we say that it is 0 minutes:

we now have: $0^{\circ}0'$

Now, let's see how many seconds are there in .0015 degrees:

$.0015\times 3600=5.4$

Thus, .0015 degrees in DMS is $\color{red}\boxed{0^{\circ}0'5.4''}$

Hope this makes sense!