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
{
           


        

Answer 1

If you're willing to sacrifice precision, you could do something like:

long num2 = 0L;
foreach (long num3 in source)
{
    num2 += 1L;
}
if (num2 <= 0L)
{
    throw Error.NoElements();
}
double average = 0;
foreach (long num3 in source)
{
    average += (double)num3 / (double)num2;
}
return average;