Average function without overflow exception

Question

.NET Framework 3.5.
I\'m trying to calculate the average of some pretty large numbers.
For instance:

using System;
using System.Linq;

class Program
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Answer 1

You may try the following approach:

let number of elements is N, and numbers are arr[0], .., arr[N-1].

You need to define 2 variables:

mean and remainder.

initially mean = 0, remainder = 0.

at step i you need to change mean and remainder in the following way:

mean += arr[i] / N;
remainder += arr[i] % N;
mean += remainder / N;
remainder %= N;

after N steps you will get correct answer in mean variable and remainder / N will be fractional part of the answer (I am not sure you need it, but anyway)