0x45E

0x45E is a hexadecimal literal commonly used in computing to denote a numeric value. In decimal form, 0x45E equals 1118. The hex digits 4, 5, and E (where E represents 14) encode the number in base 16.

In binary, 0x45E corresponds to 10001011110, which can be grouped as 010001011110 for a 12-bit representation. In octal, 1118 decimal is 2136. These representations illustrate how the same value can be expressed in different numeric bases.

The 0x prefix is a conventional indicator of hexadecimal notation in many programming languages, including C, C++, JavaScript, Java, and Python. It signals that the digits that follow should be interpreted as a base-16 value rather than a decimal value. Hex literals like 0x45E are particularly common in low-level programming tasks such as bitwise operations, masks, offsets, and encoding schemes, where compact and exact representation of values is important.

Because 0x45E is simply a numeric literal, its meaning depends on the surrounding context. It can denote a quantity, a memory offset, a bit mask, or any other value within an algorithm or data structure. The use of hexadecimal notation is widespread in debugging, hardware descriptions, and systems programming due to its alignment with binary bit patterns.

See also: hexadecimal notation, numeric bases, bitwise operations, memory addressing.