[r6rs-discuss] Hash function return value constraints

[John Cowan]

r6rsguy at free-comp-shop.com scripsit:

> So why should a hash value be negative?

Already mentioned:  to improve by a factor of 2 the chance that a hash
code of a given size is a fixnum.

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