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Division(/) Arithmetic Operator in JavaScript

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.

Javascript




console.log(100/20);
console.log(Infinity/0);
console.log(Infinity/-0);


Output:

5
Infinity
-Infinity

Example 2: In this example, we will perform a division operation on a string/non-numbers.

Javascript




console.log("100"/20);
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.

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