From: George Moschovitis Date: 2006-11-26T03:07:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Problems with String#hash > BTW I get the same negative value as you do in your last (4th!) > example. Could be a 64-bit thing. Yeap, that's what I am thinking. The offending machine has an AMD64 processor. -g. -- http://blog.gmosx.com http://nitroproject.org