Division(/) Arithmetic Operator in JavaScript
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14 Mar, 2023
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JavaScript airthmetic division operator is used to find the quotient of operands. The left operator is treated as a dividend and the right operator is treated as a divisor.
Syntax:
a/b
Return Type: It returns the quotient of the operands
Example 1: In this example, we will perform basic division on Numbers.
console.log(100/20);
console.log(Infinity/0);
console.log(Infinity/-0);
3
1
console.log(100/20);2
console.log(Infinity/0);3
console.log(Infinity/-0);Output:
5 Infinity -Infinity
Example 2: In this example, we will perform a division operation on a string/non-numbers.
console.log("100"/20);
console.log("Hello"/0);
2
1
console.log("100"/20);2
console.log("Hello"/0);Output: The string is converted to its corresponding number type and the string which does not contain any number is converted to NaN.
5 NaN
Supported Browsers:
- Chrome
- Edge
- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
We have a complete list of Javascript Arithmetic operators, to check those please go through this JavaScript Arithmetic Operators article.
