There is no problem. That's merely a hexadecimal representation of a number. The number itself doesn't contain the '&H' part. That's just a format to tell you that you're reading hexadecimal and not decimal.

1 = &H1
2 = &H2
3 = &H3
4 = &H4
5 = &H5
6 = &H6
7 = &H7
8 = &H8
9 = &H9
10 = &HA
11 = &HB
12 = &HC
13 = &HD
14 = &HE
15 = &HF
16 = &H10
17 = &H11
18 = &H12
etc.