0x2162

0x2162 is a hexadecimal number. In decimal form, it is equal to 8546. The representation 0x2162 signifies that the number is written in base 16. Hexadecimal is a base-16 numeral system that uses sixteen distinct symbols, with the ten digits 0-9 and the letters A-F to represent values from ten to fifteen. This system is commonly used in computing and digital electronics due to its convenient representation of binary data. Each hexadecimal digit corresponds to exactly four binary digits (bits). For 0x2162, the breakdown would be 0010 0001 0110 0010 in binary. The '0x' prefix is a convention used in many programming languages to indicate that the following number is in hexadecimal format.