How many minutes are there in a degree of an angle?
Degree (angle) written using decimal degrees, with the degree symbol behind the decimals; for example, 40.1875°. Alternatively, the traditional sexagesimal unit subdivisions can be used. One degree is divided into 60 "minutes (of arc)", and one minute into 60 "seconds (of arc)". Use of degrees-minutes-seconds is also called DMS notation. These subdivisions, also called the "arcminute" and "arcsecond", are respectively represented by a single and double prime. For example, , or, using quotation mark characters, . Additional precision can be provided using decimals for the arcseconds component. Maritime charts are marked in degrees and decimal minutes to facilitate measurement; 1 minute of
Degree (angle) Degree (angle) A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees. It is not an SI unit, as the SI unit of angular measure is the radian, but it is mentioned in the SI brochure as an accepted unit. Because a full rotation equals 2 radians, one degree is equivalent to radians. The original motivation for choosing the degree as a unit of rotations and angles is unknown. One theory states that it is