15.17. Multiplicative Operators
The operators *, /, and % are called the multiplicative operators.
MultiplicativeExpression: UnaryExpression MultiplicativeExpression * UnaryExpression MultiplicativeExpression / UnaryExpression MultiplicativeExpression % UnaryExpression
The multiplicative operators have the same precedence and are syntactically left-associative (they group left-to-right).
The type of each of the operands of a multiplicative operator must be a type that is convertible (§5.1.8) to a primitive numeric type, or a compile-time error occurs.
Binary numeric promotion is performed on the operands (§5.6.2).
Note that binary numeric promotion performs value set conversion (§5.1.13) and may perform unboxing conversion (§
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