How do I determine whether a number is within a percentage of another number

Question

I'm writing iPhone code that fuzzily recognizes whether a swiped line is straight-ish. I get the bearing of the two end points and compare it to 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees with a tolerance of 10 degrees plus or minus. Right now I do it with a bunch of if blocks, which seems super clunky.

How to write a function that, given the bearing 0..360, the tolerance percentage (say 20% = (-10° to +10°)) and a straight angle like 90 degrees, returns whether the bearing is within the tolerance?

Update: I am, perhaps, being too specific. I think a nice, general function that determines whether a number is within a percentage of another number has utility in many areas.

For instance: Is the number swipeLength within 10% of maxSwipe? That would be useful.

 BOOL isNumberWithinPercentOfNumber(float firstN, float percent, float secondN) {
      // dunno how to calculate
 }

 BOOL result;

 float swipeLength1 = 303; 
 float swipeLength2 = 310; 

 float tolerance = 10.0; // from -5% to 5%
 float maxSwipe = 320.0;

 result = isNumberWithinPercentOfNumber(swipeLength1, tolerance, maxSwipe); 
 // result = NO

 result = isNumberWithinPercentOfNumber(swipeLength2, tolerance, maxSwipe);
 // result = YES

Do you see what I'm getting at?

Answer 1

int AngularDistance (int angle, int targetAngle) 
{

    int diff = 0;
    diff = abs(targetAngle - angle)

    if (diff > 180) diff = 360 - diff;

    return diff;
}

This should work for any two angles.