0xAE

0xAE is the hexadecimal representation of the byte value 174 in decimal. In base-16 notation, the prefix 0x signals a hex literal, a common convention in programming. The binary form of 0xAE is 10101110, and it frequently appears in low-level code, memory dumps, and data encoding tasks.

In character encoding, 0xAE maps to the registered trademark symbol in several single-byte encodings such as ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252. In Unicode, the symbol is encoded as U+00AE. The UTF-8 encoding of U+00AE is the two-byte sequence C2 AE. Web pages and software often render the symbol with HTML entities such as ®, or numeric references like ® or ®.

In programming contexts, 0xAE denotes the hexadecimal literal for the value 174. It can be used in bitwise operations, masks, array indices, or as part of larger constants when composing data at the byte level. While 0xAE on its own is just a number, its interpretation depends on the surrounding code and encoding.

Overall, 0xAE serves as a concise example of how a two-digit hex value interacts with decimal, binary representations, and character encoding schemes, illustrating common patterns in computing and digital text processing. See also hex notation, binary, and Unicode/character encoding.