Kevin Bullock wrote:
> Lyndon Samson wrote:
> 
>> X % of the people of this list appear to be using GoogleMail, where X
>> is some value ~50 :-)
>>  
>>
> % irb --prompt simple
>  >> ~50
> => -51
> 
> -51 people are using GoogleMail? :P
> 

Convert it to an unsigned 32-bit value.  ;)

Hal