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meta:
  title: Assignment division operator
  description: This operator takes a variable and in a concise way, assigns another value to it while dividing the original value with the new value.
---

This operator takes a variable and in a concise way, assigns another
value to it while dividing the original value with the new value.

```javascript
let a = 1;
a /= 4; // a now equals 0.25
```
