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TVSET has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,

While writing a test suite for our intranet, I came across an unexpected result. The bug has been fixed, but I am still puzzled over the meaning of the results. If scalar is given a hash as an argument, it returns something that looks like "2/8". For different hashes the result might be the same and I haven't noticed any trend in changes. The only guess I can make is the number of used/allocated buckets in the hash. Anyone has any idea and can clear things up for me?

Thanks in advance.