The /
operator produces the quotient of its operands where the left operand is the dividend and the right operand is the divisor.
The /
operator produces the quotient of its operands where the left operand is the dividend and the right operand is the divisor.
x / y
The /
operator is overloaded for two types of operands: number and BigInt. It first coerces both operands to numeric values and tests the types of them. It performs BigInt division if both operands become BigInts; otherwise, it performs number division. A TypeError
is thrown if one operand becomes a BigInt but the other becomes a number.
For BigInt division, the result is the quotient of the two operands truncated towards zero, and the remainder is discarded. A RangeError
is thrown if the divisor y
is 0n
. This is because number division by zero returns Infinity
or -Infinity
, but BigInt has no concept of infinity.
1 / 2; // 0.5 Math.floor(3 / 2); // 1 1.0 / 2.0; // 0.5 1n / 2n; // 0n 5n / 3n; // 1n -1n / 3n; // 0n 1n / -3n; // 0n 2n / 2; // TypeError: Cannot mix BigInt and other types, use explicit conversions // To do division with a BigInt and a non-BigInt, convert either operand 2n / BigInt(2); // 1n Number(2n) / 2; // 1
2.0 / 0; // Infinity 2.0 / 0.0; // Infinity, because 0.0 === 0 2.0 / -0.0; // -Infinity 2n / 0n; // RangeError: Division by zero
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