## Operators

### Arithmetic operators

The arithmetic operators are addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), division (/), integer division (\), percent (%), modulus (Mod), negation (-) and exponentiation (^). Arithmetic operators are used to combine numbers, numeric variables, numeric fields and numeric functions to get another number.

##### Examples

    //Outstanding preferred stock as a percent of
    //common stock
    {Financials.Preferred Stock} %
    {Financials.Common Stock};
    //The square root of 9, Sqr(9) is 3
    //The formula returns 17
    7 + 2 * 3 - 2 + Sqr(6 + 3) * Length("up");

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