Paul White was assured that there would be no math:
This is all very familiar, of course, but it is also dumb. Why on earth should we have to worry about internal formulas? It seems ridiculous to have to provision or grow a transaction log in pieces just to get a reasonable VLF outcome.
Wouldn’t it be better to be able to specify a fixed size for VLFs instead?
Starting with SQL Server 2022, there is now a way though it is undocumented and unsupported for the time being at least.
Read on to see what that option is, how it works, and what the limitations are. Looking at the side effects, I’d say this is probably not something you want to jump on right now.