0xCB3

0xCB3 is a hexadecimal literal, commonly used in computing to denote a numeric value in base-16. When interpreted as a decimal number, 0xCB3 equals 3251. In binary, it is represented as 110010110011, which reflects its 12-bit magnitude. As a three-digit hexadecimal value, it falls within the range 0x000 to 0xFFF (0 to 4095).

In software and digital systems, 0xCB3 may appear as a constant, an offset, an error code, or an identifier in protocols and data structures. The exact meaning of the value is context-dependent and determined by the surrounding code, specification, or hardware documentation. Because the 0x prefix is the conventional marker for hexadecimal literals in many programming languages, 0xCB3 can be used wherever a hex constant is appropriate.

Notation and interpretation: Hexadecimal uses digits 0–9 and letters A–F (case-insensitive) to represent values. The digits C, B, and 3 correspond to decimal values 12, 11, and 3, respectively. Thus, 0xCB3 is interpreted as 12×16^2 + 11×16^1 + 3×16^0, totaling 3251. This compact representation is often convenient for debugging, memory addressing, and encoding schemes in low-level computing.

See also: Hexadecimal notation, numeric literals, memory addressing.