Last Updated: 3 Jan, 2021

Angle Between Hour Hand And Minute Hand

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Problem statement

Given the time in hours and minutes, you need to calculate the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand.

Note :

There can be two angles between the hour hand and minute hand, you need to print a minimum of two. Also, print the floor value of angle i.e. if the angle is 15.2, you need to print 15.

Input format:

The first line of input contains an integer ‘T’ denoting the number of test cases.

The first and only line of each test case contains two integers H and M denoting the time in hours and minutes.

Output format:

For each test case, print the smaller angle between the hour hand and minute hand.

Note:

You do not need to print anything, it has already been taken care of. Just implement the given function.

Constraints:

1 <= T <= 50
1 <= H <= 12
0 <= M <= 59

Time Limit: 1 sec

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Approaches

01 Approach

The idea is to take the 12:00 i.e. H = 12 and M = 0 as reference time.
First, calculate the angle made by the hour hand with respect to 12:00 in H hours and M minutes. In 12 hours the hour hand moves by 360 degrees i.e. 30 degrees in 1 hour and 0.5 degrees in 1 minute. So in H hours and M minutes, the angle moved by hour hand is 0.5 * (H * 60 + M).
Then, calculate the angle made by minute hand with respect to 12:00 in H hours and M minutes. In 60 minutes the minute hand moves by 360 degrees i.e. 6 degrees in 1 minute. So in H hours and M minutes, the angle moved by minute hand is 6 * M.
The difference between the two angles is the required angle.

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