how this probably went down (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 06:50 (3517 days ago) @ Cody Miller

What's going on here?

I finished a match with 18 kills and 1 death. K/D reported as 18.0 as it should. Later, I finished with 18 kills and ZERO deaths. This should produce a nonsensical ratio given the division by zero, but it also displayed as 18.0.

What's going on here? How can the same number of kills but one more death result in the same K/D ratio?

Here's how this went down.

"Tester: Hey I went 18-0 and the game crashed with a divide by zero exception!"
"Programmer: fixed: if (deaths == 0) deaths++"
"Designer: I'm cool with it."

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Interesting Math for K/D - Cody Miller, 2014-09-29, 18:34
- I was thinking about that the other day - ZackDark, 2014-09-29, 18:37
  - I was thinking about that the other day - Blue_Blazer_NZ, 2014-09-29, 18:42
  - I was thinking about that the other day - Cody Miller, 2014-09-29, 18:43
  - I was thinking about that the other day - uberfoop, 2014-09-29, 19:34
- Interesting Math for K/D - uberfoop, 2014-09-29, 19:30
  - Interesting Math for K/D - Ragashingo, 2014-09-29, 19:42
    - #include isnotcanon.h - Beorn, 2014-09-29, 19:46
  - Interesting Math for K/D - Monochron, 2014-09-29, 19:45
- Interesting Math for K/D - ncsuDuncan, 2014-09-29, 19:39
- how this probably went down - electricpirate, 2014-09-30, 06:50
- How did the Halos handle it? - ZackDark, 2014-09-30, 07:38
  - I don't think they calculated it… just Ks and Ds - Beorn, 2014-09-30, 16:35

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