Why is 4 not an instance of Number?

Question

Just curious:

• 4 instanceof Number => false
• new Number(4) instanceof Number => true?

Why is this? Same with strings:

Answer 1

You may try to evaluate:

>>> typeof("a")
"string"
>>> typeof(new String("a"))
"object"
>>> typeof(4)
"number"
>>> typeof(new Number(4))
"object"