0xB4

0xB4 is a hexadecimal literal commonly used in computing to denote the value B4 in base-16. The prefix 0x signals that the following digits are hexadecimal. In decimal, 0xB4 equals 180. In binary, it is 10110100.

As an 8-bit quantity, 0xB4 represents 180 when interpreted as an unsigned value. If interpreted as a signed 8-bit value in two’s complement, it corresponds to -76. This difference between unsigned and signed interpretation is a standard consideration in low-level programming and data handling.

In character encoding, the byte 0xB4 maps to the Latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1) character U+00B4, the acute accent symbol used in various languages. In Unicode, the same glyph is commonly referred to as the acute accent and appears in contexts ranging from diacritics to typography.

Practically, 0xB4 can appear in source code as a numeric constant, in binary data representations, or in data formats and network protocols expressed in hexadecimal. In color representations with 8-bit channels, a value of 180 for a channel corresponds to 0xB4.

The use of the 0x prefix to denote hexadecimal is widespread across programming languages such as C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python, making 0xB4 a familiar example of a hex literal in software development and debugging.