Insomnia | Topcoder Archive

Problem Statement

When I can't sleep I count sheep. During the first hour I count 900 sheep (I start at 1 and count up: 1, 2, 3, ..., 899, 900). During the next hour I count them down (so as to avoid having my numbers of sheep grow too large), that is, I count 899, 898 etc. As I count down slower than up, I count 600 sheep down during the second hour. Then I count up again, and so forth.

Your task is, given the number of minutes I spend trying to get to sleep, return the final number of sheep where I stop counting.

Definition

Class:: Insomnia
Method:: sheepCount
Parameters:: int
Returns:: int
Method signature:: int sheepCount(int minutes)
(be sure your method is public)

Notes

Assume that each hour I count evenly: either 15 sheep a minute up, or 10 sheep a minute down.

Constraints

minutes is between 0 and 720, inclusive.

Examples

```
0
```
```
Returns: 0
```
```
120
```
```
Returns: 300
```
```
2
```
```
Returns: 30
```
```
185
```
```
Returns: 1150
```

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