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Okay, so I was thinking about win ratios one day, and thought to myself "what win to loss ratio would be equal to that of games played to win ratio (assuming no ties). I did some estimates and it seemed that it wouldn't be hard to find the exact number, since it seems around 1.62 is quite close.

When I decided to write the algebra though, I came across a problem.

(W+L)/W=W/L (find W/L)

would result in A^2 - AB - B^2=0, which isn't easy to deal with. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here (even if I substitute a variable with a value). I did some pretty advanced maths in school, but I forgot a lot of it.

I'm just curious how an expression with only 2 variables can find a numerical constant for their ratio. It must be possible, since I got close at 1.62.

I'm more curious how stupid I am regarding this (what I'm missing), and/or any special information regarding these types of problems. I tried searching the net a bit, but didn't really find anything (math can be impossible to google)

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