> Then I ask you again what does have a bearing on that?
> x = 0xA
> What kind of number is x?

To add a little to Gennady Bystritsky's answer:

x is not a number--x is a variable.  After the assignment, x refers to 
an Integer object that was created from the Integer literal 0xA.




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