.NET: Strange behaviour of double.Equals() when boxing.

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Published on 2010-05-06T09:37:28Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 9:48 UTC
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What's going on here?

int zero = 0;
double x = 0;
object y = x;

Console.WriteLine(x.Equals(zero)); // True
Console.WriteLine(y.Equals(zero)); // False

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