0x98

0x98 is a hexadecimal literal used in many programming languages to denote the integer value 152 in decimal. The prefix 0x is a common convention for hex notation, used in languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript.

As a byte, 0x98 equals 152 in decimal and 10011000 in binary. It commonly appears in contexts involving binary data, memory dumps, and network or file formats that are expressed in hexadecimal.

In character encoding contexts, 0x98 can have different meanings depending on the encoding. In Windows-1252 (a Western European character set used on many systems), the byte 0x98 represents the character ˜ (the small tilde, U+02DC). In Unicode, the code point U+0098 is a control character in the C1 set and is not printable; when encoded in UTF-8, U+0098 is represented by the two-byte sequence 0xC2 0x98. Thus, 0x98 on its own is typically a byte value whose interpretation depends on the surrounding encoding.

In practice, 0x98 is a common representation for a byte in software that handles low-level data, such as binary protocols, file formats, or memory layouts. Its precise meaning is context-dependent and not tied to a single universal standard.