0x501A

0x501A is a hexadecimal literal used in computing to denote a specific unsigned integer value. The prefix 0x signals base-16 notation. The digits 501A correspond to 5×16^3 + 0×16^2 + 1×16 + 10, which equals 20480 + 0 + 16 + 10 = 20506 in decimal. In binary, 0x501A is 0101 0000 0001 1010.

In software development, 0x501A commonly appears as a numeric constant, a memory address, an offset, or as part of a bit field. In data structures and binary formats, such a value may encode flags or a small field of information. When stored in memory, the actual byte order depends on the system’s endianness; the numeric value remains the same, but its byte sequence in memory differs between little-endian and big-endian architectures.

In source code, 0x501A is a language-agnostic representation of a constant. For example, in C or C++, it is treated as an integer literal and can be assigned to an unsigned short (yielding the 16-bit value 0x501A), or promoted to a larger integer type as needed. In scripting languages like Python, 0x501A evaluates to the decimal 20506. In assembly or lower-level contexts, 0x501A may also denote a specific address, offset, or immediate data within a program or firmware image.

Without additional context, 0x501A has no inherent meaning beyond representing the numeric value 20506 and serving as a hex notation example used across programming, debugging, and hardware documentation. See also hexadecimal notation, memory addressing, and endianness.