What counts as an operation?
Simple operations are anything that takes constant time to achieve. 
The confusion is that division does not seem to take constant time, and in fact, in general, it does not. BUT!

Division and addition both take constant time if, say, you are adding two 32-bit integers together, which is usually how it goes. However, if you are adding arbitrarily large numbers, they won't really be constant-time, though sometimes I think people will treat it as if it is because the numbers are kind of assumed to not get super big.