0010001111011111

0010001111011111 is a 16-bit binary string, meaning it is a sequence of sixteen binary digits. When written in four-bit groups, it appears as 0010 0011 1101 1111. This grouping corresponds to the hexadecimal value 0x23DF.

As a binary number, it equals 9183 in decimal. The most significant bit is 0, so in a signed 16-bit two’s complement interpretation the value remains positive, and the numeric value is still 9183. In memory, the two bytes that make up this 16-bit word are 0x23 and 0xDF in big-endian order; in little-endian order the bytes would be stored as 0xDF followed by 0x23. The endianness only affects byte order in storage, not the intrinsic value of the 16-bit word when interpreted.

Contexts for such a pattern are diverse in computing. It could represent a raw numeric value, a bitfield or mask where individual bits encode flags, or part of a fixed-width instruction encoding in a processor or other data formats. Without additional information about the intended use, the sequence has no single canonical meaning beyond its numeric and bit-pattern representations.

See also: binary numeral system, hexadecimal notation, endianness, bitfield.