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diff --git a/lisp/calc/calc.el b/lisp/calc/calc.el
index ba1c7de9967..04d852e5cb3 100644
--- a/lisp/calc/calc.el
+++ b/lisp/calc/calc.el
@@ -2773,9 +2773,18 @@ largest Emacs integer.")
;; Coerce integer A to be a bignum. [B S]
(defun math-bignum (a)
- (if (>= a 0)
- (cons 'bigpos (math-bignum-big a))
- (cons 'bigneg (math-bignum-big (- a)))))
+ (cond
+ ((>= a 0)
+ (cons 'bigpos (math-bignum-big a)))
+ ((= a most-negative-fixnum)
+ ;; Note: cannot get the negation directly because
+ ;; (- most-negative-fixnum) is most-negative-fixnum.
+ ;;
+ ;; most-negative-fixnum := -most-positive-fixnum - 1
+ (math-sub (cons 'bigneg (math-bignum-big most-positive-fixnum))
+ 1))
+ (t
+ (cons 'bigneg (math-bignum-big (- a))))))
(defun math-bignum-big (a) ; [L s]
(if (= a 0)