Java comparisons of boxed values

[bmistree]

Using ==, !=, etc., may be a bad idea on boxed values. See:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2021374/boxed-primitives-and-equivalence

[JayThomason]

You've probably already looked into this, but I think you want to either use the equals() method, the compareTo() method, or use == and getters for the values.

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