00100101

00100101 is an eight-bit binary value frequently used in computing to illustrate a single byte. As an unsigned integer, it equals 37 in decimal, and in hexadecimal it is 0x25. In ASCII, the byte 0x25 represents the character percent sign (%), so the same binary pattern can encode either a numeric value or a symbol depending on context.

The pattern has ones in bit positions 5, 2, and 0 (counting from the most significant bit as 7 to the least significant bit as 0). In programming, it can be written as a binary literal such as 0b00100101 or simply as 0x25 in hexadecimal.

Used in education and practice, 00100101 appears in examples of bitwise operations, data encoding, and protocol design where specific bit patterns convey flags or characters. It also serves as a standard example when teaching binary numbers, ASCII encoding, and byte-oriented data processing. The interpretation of this value is determined by the surrounding encoding rules and the software handling the data.