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Angle Between Hands of a Clock

LeetCode #: 1344

Difficulty: Medium

Topic: Math.

Problem

Given two numbers, hour and minutes. Return the smaller angle (in sexagesimal units) formed between the hour and the minute hand.

Example 1:

Input: hour = 12, minutes = 30
Output: 165

Example 2:

Input: hour = 3, minutes = 30
Output: 75

Example 3:

Input: hour = 3, minutes = 15
Output: 7.5

Example 4:

Input: hour = 4, minutes = 50
Output: 155

Example 5:

Input: hour = 12, minutes = 0
Output: 0

Constraints:

• 1 <= hour <= 12
• 0 <= minutes <= 59
• Answers within 10^-5 of the actual value will be accepted as correct.