In an experiment the angles are required to be measured using an instrument, $29$ divisions of the main scale exactly coincide with the $30$ divisions of the vernier scale. If the smallest division of the main scale is half- a degree $(= 0.5^o )$, then the least count of the instrument is
AIEEE 2009, Medium
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