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1344. Angle Between Hands of a Clock

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Problem Statement

1344. Angle Between Hands of a Clock

Medium

Given two numbers, hour and minutes, return the smaller angle (in degrees) formed between the hour and the minute hand.

Answers within 10-5 of the actual value will be accepted as correct.

 

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

 

Constraints:

Java

Source file
class Solution {
    public double angleClock(int hour, int minutes) {
        double minuteAngle = minutes * 360d / 60d;
        double hourAngle = hour * 360d / 12d + minutes * 360d / 12d / 60d;
        double diff = Math.abs(minuteAngle - hourAngle);
        return Math.min(diff, 360 - diff);
    }
}