Degrees To Decimal With Javascript

I have found a nice way to get decimal value from degrees of longitude and latitude recently:

function format(coords) {
    var decimal = 0,
        output  = [],
        coords  = coords.split('  '); // it might be <br> as well

    for (var i = 0; i < coords.length; i += 1) {
        var c = coords[i].split(' ');

        for (var j = 0; j < c.length; j += 1) {
            decimal += c[j] / Math.pow(60, j);
        }

        output.push(parseFloat(decimal).toFixed(5));
        decimal = 0;
    }

    prompt('Souřadnice bodu', output.join(', '));
}

When you call format("DD° MM' SS' DD° MM' SS'"); you’ll get decimal value in return (or prompt to be accurate). What I like the most about this solution is the usage of Math.pow(). I think it is a neat way to transform the values as you need to divide parts of latitude or longitude by 60⁰, 60¹ and 60² respectively.

There is definitely a googol of different solutions to this task, I just liked the simplicity of this one.