Help with G.P.S. Coordinates!

[Joe Horn]

(09-10-2014 10:29 PM)Richard Wagner Wrote:  As if not having GRAD was bad enough, there has been another annoyance about HP PRIME discovered:

Lack of ability to directly enter so-called GPS coordinates; instead dd, mm, and ss.sss are ALL required before a hexadecimal value conversion can be displayed!

42 degs 17 mins 50 seconds, "DMS format", can also be represented by:
42 degs 17.833333333 mins, which I am calling "GPS Format"

I am looking for a clever way to efficiently enter "GPS Format" using a single variable if possible! (This is how my Casio fx9860GII, and OLDER-GENERATION! calculator handles it).

HP PRIME forces us to use 2 variables for every "GPS Pair" right now.
(although an optimal way of accomplishing this might be possible, I don't have it yet)

Here's one method for entering 42° 17.8333333333' which is horribly ugly but which works:

42 [ ° ' " ] + 17.8333333333 * 0 [ ° ' " ] 1
--> 42°17'50"

Can anybody discover a method that takes fewer keystrokes?

EDIT: Here's one: 42 [ ° ' " ] + 17.8333333333 / 60
--> 42°17'50"