in reply to Re^6: Problem with a sort result: weird subtraction behaviour?
in thread Problem with a sort result

The problem is that the code that implements the behaviour is in C. There's no number string, there are different integer types with different byte sizes. 
($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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