0010011011001100
0010011011001100 is a 16-bit binary numeral. As an unsigned integer, it equals 9932 in decimal and 0x26CC in hexadecimal. In memory, its two-byte representation is 0x26 followed by 0xCC in big-endian order, or 0xCC followed by 0x26 in little-endian order.
In computing and digital electronics, binary strings of this kind are commonplace for representing numeric values,
As a text sequence, if interpreted as two 8-bit bytes in ASCII-compatible encodings, the first byte 0x26