1344. Angle Between Hands of a Clock
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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:
1 <= hour <= 120 <= minutes <= 59
Hints
Hint 1
The tricky part is determining how the minute hand affects the position of the hour hand.
Hint 2
Calculate the angles separately then find the difference.