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The values you are looking for are:

float32 angle_min        # start angle of the scan [rad]
float32 angle_max        # end angle of the scan [rad]
float32 angle_increment  # angular distance between measurements [rad]

The i-th range corresponds to angle: angle_min + i * angle_increment. Two consecutive ranges are always angle_increment apart. You should read those out for the kinect specifics, but I doubt that they are full 360 deg as that wouldn't make sense.