Average of 3 long integers

Question

I have 3 very large signed integers.

long x = long.MaxValue;
long y = long.MaxValue - 1;
long z = long.MaxValue - 2;

I want to calculate th

Answer 1

Patching Patrick Hofman's solution with supercat's correction, I give you the following:

static Int64 Avg3 ( Int64 x, Int64 y, Int64 z )
{
    UInt64 flag = 1ul << 63;
    UInt64 x_ = flag ^ (UInt64) x;
    UInt64 y_ = flag ^ (UInt64) y;
    UInt64 z_ = flag ^ (UInt64) z;
    UInt64 quotient = x_ / 3ul + y_ / 3ul + z_ / 3ul
        + ( x_ % 3ul + y_ % 3ul + z_ % 3ul ) / 3ul;
    return (Int64) (quotient ^ flag);
}

And the N element case:

static Int64 AvgN ( params Int64 [ ] args )
{
    UInt64 length = (UInt64) args.Length;
    UInt64 flag = 1ul << 63;
    UInt64 quotient_sum = 0;
    UInt64 remainder_sum = 0;
    foreach ( Int64 item in args )
    {
        UInt64 uitem = flag ^ (UInt64) item;
        quotient_sum += uitem / length;
        remainder_sum += uitem % length;
    }

    return (Int64) ( flag ^ ( quotient_sum + remainder_sum / length ) );
}

This always gives the floor() of the mean, and eliminates every possible edge case.