### Division of Numbers (operator /)

Dividing numbers is done by the operator /. It works differently with integers and floating-point numbers.

• When we divide two whole numbers, an integer divison is applied and the received output is without its fractional part. Example: 11 / 3 = 3.
• When we divide two numbers and at least one of them is a real number, a floating division is applied and the received result is a real number, just as it is in math. Example 11 / 4.0 = 2.75. When it cannot be done with exact precision, the result is being rounded, for example 11.0 / 3 = 3.66666666666667.
• The integer division by 0 causes an exception during runtime (runtime exception).
• Real numbers divided by 0 do not cause an exception and the result is +/- infinity or a special value NaN. Example 5 / 0.0 = ∞.

Here are a few examples with the divison operator:

var a = 25;
var i = a / 4;      // we are applying an integer division:
// the result of this operation will be 6 – the fractional part will be cut,
// because we are dividing integers
var f = a / 4.0;    // 6.25 – floating division. We have set the number 4 to be interpreted
// as a float by adding a decimal separator followed by zero
var error = a / 0;  // Error: Integer divide by zero