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[-] dabe@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Well, no, I don’t think so. 5/0 would make a ratio of 5:0, which is undefined.

From a mathematical perspective that makes sense. However a KD ratio is how many kills per life. So if it was 5 kills to 1 death, won't the KD be 2.5 because each life has equivalent of 2.5 kills

[-] Amir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

KD ratio is defined as kills per death not kills per life...

[-] fergilicious@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think in the military movies and stuff (won’t pretend I know actually military shit) that’s why we hear the term confirmed kills, and k/d is mostly heard in video games and discord bragging threads. After all from a score perspective, the person who has killed 10 people and not died should be at a higher score ranking than the guy who killed 10 people then died and had to respawn.

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