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

Math

(x + y + z) / 3 = x/3 + y/3 + z/3

(a[1] + a[2] + .. + a[k]) / k = a[1]/k + a[2]/k + .. + a[k]/k

Code

long calculateAverage (long a [])
{
    double average = 0;

    foreach (long x in a)
        average += (Convert.ToDouble(x)/Convert.ToDouble(a.Length));

    return Convert.ToInt64(Math.Round(average));
}

long calculateAverage_Safe (long a [])
{
    double average = 0;
    double b = 0;

    foreach (long x in a)
    {
        b = (Convert.ToDouble(x)/Convert.ToDouble(a.Length));

        if (b >= (Convert.ToDouble(long.MaxValue)-average))
            throw new OverflowException ();

        average += b;
    }

    return Convert.ToInt64(Math.Round(average));
}