ECMA-334: 11.1.1 The System.ValueType type

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11.1.1 The System.ValueType type

All value types implicitly inherit from the class System.ValueType, which, in turn, inherits from class object.

Note that System.ValueType is not itself a value-type. Rather, it is a class-type from which all value-types are automatically derived.