diff --git a/Data/HashMap/Strict.hs b/Data/HashMap/Strict.hs
index eb34d3da..cd5baa6c 100644
--- a/Data/HashMap/Strict.hs
+++ b/Data/HashMap/Strict.hs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 -- strings.
 --
 -- Many operations have a average-case complexity of \(O(\log n)\).  The
--- implementation uses a large base (i.e. 16) so in practice these
+-- implementation uses a large base (i.e. 32) so in practice these
 -- operations are constant time.
 module Data.HashMap.Strict
     (