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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 3 Runnable: 2

([x] [x y] [x y & more])

If no denominators are supplied, returns 1/numerator, else returns numerator divided by all of the denominators.

Examples

by zk on 2010-07-24 . May have evaluation errors. ▶

(/ 6 3) 2 (/ 6 3 2) 1 (/ 10) 1/10 (/ 1 3) 1/3 (/) ArityException Wrong number of args (0) passed to: core$-SLASH- (/ 1 0) java.lang.ArithmeticException (/ 0) java.lang.ArithmeticException

by rebcabin on 2013-12-16 ▶

;;; Automatically handles floating point: (/ 43.0 2) 21.5

by idrozd on 2021-12-09 ▶

(numerator (/ 2 6)) 1 (denominator (/ 2 6)) 3

See also

• clojure.core/quot (1)
• clojure.core/unchecked-divide-int
• clojure.core/ratio? (2)

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