It's going to box them into objects, which will cause it to return false. object i = 0; //object, so we will cause no boxing Object.ReferenceEquals(i, i);/

It's going to box them into objects, which will cause it to return false. object i = 0; //object, so we will cause no boxing Object.ReferenceEquals(i, i);//now refering to the same objects, returns true;