From: Ryan Davis Date: 2013-03-06T21:54:00+09:00 Subject: Re: Bignum-Fixnum-Numeric confusion You're on a 32 bit system so your cutoff is lower. Use 2**29 for example. You can see the size of a fixnum with 0.size On Mar 6, 2013, at 4:37, Pritam Dey wrote: > @Hans thanks for your care. > > Please find the below I am getting something different in my IRB: > > I am using the below Ruby version. > > ruby 1.9.3p374 (2013-01-15) [i386-mingw32] > >>> (10**18).object_id == (10**18).object_id > => false >>> (10**19).object_id == (10**19).object_id > => false > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. >