About Question enthuware.ocajp.i.v8.2.1104 :

[eddie3]

The answer to this question seems to be in contradiction with a a previous question from Ethuware (ocajp.i.v8.2,1369). In that question,

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Integer i1=1;
Byte b1 = 1;
Long g1= 1L;

The answer states that output to

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i1.equals(g1)

and

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i1.equals(b1)

are both false. And the explanation says that

The equals method of all wrapper classes first checks if the two objects are of the same class or not. If not, they immediately return false.

If this is the case, in this question,

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Integer i = new Integer(42);
Long ln = new Long(42);
Double d = new Double (42.0);

shouldn't

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i.equals(d);

or

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d.equals(ln)

both return false? Because they are all pointing to objects of different data types?

[admin]

Yes, both will return false. But they are valid code fragments, which is what the question is asking. It is not saying that they will return true.
I have updated the problem statement to make it clear.

thank you for your feedback!
Paul.