Division Operator in Go
Golang Division Operator takes two operands and returns the division of first operand by second operand. Both the operands provided to Division Operator should be of same datatype.
Golang Division Operator applies to integers, floats, and complex values.
Division Operator is also called Quotient Operator.
In this tutorial, we will learn about the syntax of Division Operator, and some example scenarios on how to use Division operator.
Syntax
The syntax to divide a number a by b, using Division Operator is
a/b
where a and b are operands and / is the operator symbol.
Return Value
The return value is of same datatype as that of first operand.
Examples
Division of Integers
In the following example, we take two integer values and divide the first number a by second number b using Division Operator.
Example.go
package main
func main() {
a := 7
b := 3
result := a / b
println("Division (a/b) = ", result)
} Output
Division (a/b) = 2
When using Division Operator with integers, only quotient is returned, remainder is ignored.
Division of Floating Point Values
In the following example, we take two floating point numbers and find their division of one by another using Division Operator.
Example.go
package main
func main() {
a := 7.5
b := 3.2
result := a / b
println("Division (a/b) = ", result)
} Output
Division (a/b) = +2.343750e+000
Division of Complex Numbers
In the following example, we take two complex numbers and compute the division.
Example.go
package main
func main() {
a := complex(3, 4)
b := complex(1, 2)
result := a / b
println("Division (a/b) = ", result)
} Output
Division (a/b) = (+2.200000e+000-4.000000e-001i)
Division of Float by Integer
In the following example, we take float value in first operand and integer value in second operand. We try to compute their division using Division Operator. Since Division Operator accepts operands of same type, the expression of (float / integer) raises an error.
Example.go
package main
func main() {
a := 3.14
b := 2
result := a / b
println("Division (a/b) = ", result)
} Output
./example.go:6:14: invalid operation: a / b (mismatched types float64 and int)
Conclusion
In this Golang Tutorial, we learned about Division Operator in Go language, with the syntax and example programs.