Division assignment (/=)

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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

The division assignment (/=) operator performs division on the two operands and assigns the result to the left operand.

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Syntax

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x /= y

Description

x /= y is equivalent to x = x / y, except that the expression x is only evaluated once.

Examples

Division assignment using numbers

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let bar = 5;

bar /= 2; // 2.5
bar /= 2; // 1.25
bar /= 0; // Infinity

Other non-BigInt values are coerced to numbers:

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let bar = 5;
bar /= "2"; // 2.5
bar /= "foo"; // NaN

Division assignment using BigInts

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let foo = 3n;
foo /= 2n; // 1n
foo /= 2n; // 0n

foo /= 0n; // RangeError: BigInt division by zero
foo /= 1; // TypeError: Cannot mix BigInt and other types, use explicit conversions

Specifications

Specification
ECMAScript Language Specification
# sec-assignment-operators

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Division assignment (x /= y)

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