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title: "Why dividing(/) by 0 does not throw an error in Dart — How Dart handles numbers"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-dividing-by-0-does-not-throw-an-error-in-dart-how-dart-handles-numbers-opbc-0tio
source_url: https://medium.com/flutter-community/why-dividing-by-0-does-not-throw-an-error-in-dart-how-dart-handles-numbers-a17ac8e5630c?source=rss----86fb29d7cc6a---4
type: article
source: "Flutter Community"
published: 2022-07-18T01:06:36.143Z
updated: 2022-07-18T01:06:36.087Z
tags: ["dart"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 11
comments: 0
language: en
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# Why dividing(/) by 0 does not throw an error in Dart — How Dart handles numbers

**[Flutter Community](https://daily.dev/sources/flutter_com)** · 2 min read · 11 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Dart targets multiple platforms, and numbers in dart behave differently depending on the underlying platform. In dart, int represents integers, and double represents fractional values. Why dividing(/) by 0 does not throw an error in Dart — How Dart handles numbers? How does Dart handle numbers and operations while targetting so many platforms?

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