0x164D

0x164D is a hexadecimal literal commonly encountered in computing. The prefix 0x indicates that the following digits are in base 16, and the value 0x164D equals 5709 in decimal.

In software development, such a value can appear as a constant, an enumerator, a bitmask, or a memory address offset, depending on the context. Hex literals are commonly used in low-level code, firmware, and device drivers because they align well with binary data and hardware registers.

In hardware and embedded systems, 0x164D may be used to represent a 16-bit quantity stored in memory-mapped registers or exchanged over a protocol. The exact meaning of the bit pattern 0001011001001101 is defined by the hardware documentation. Depending on endianness, the same value may be read or written with different byte orders on different systems.

Color representations can also employ 16-bit formats such as RGB565, where 0x164D corresponds to a specific color. Interpreting 0x164D as RGB565 yields red = 2, green = 50, and blue = 13, which translates to an approximate 8-bit RGB value of (16, 203, 107), a muted green tone.

In other contexts, 0x164D could be treated as a Unicode code point or other encoding value if the surrounding scheme defines it that way. The interpretation depends entirely on the data format and the surrounding software or hardware specification.

See also: hexadecimal notation, memory addressing, RGB565, endianness.