0xEA

0xEA is the hexadecimal numeral for the byte value EA. In decimal, that's 234; in binary, 11101010. The prefix 0x is used in many programming languages such as C, C++, JavaScript, and Python to denote hexadecimal literals.

In character encoding terms, the single byte 0xEA corresponds to the character ê in ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252. In Unicode, the character is U+00EA; in UTF-8, that character is encoded as two bytes: 0xC3 0xAA, not 0xEA.

In x86 machine code, the byte 0xEA is an opcode that encodes a far jump instruction (JMP ptr16:32 in real-address mode). It is used to transfer execution to a new segment:offset address. Its usage is mostly seen in low-level code, boot loaders, and sometimes in obfuscated or hand-written assembly.

Additionally, 0xEA as a byte value can be interpreted as a signed 8-bit integer with value -22 in two's complement. When used in data structures or binary protocols, its interpretation depends on the surrounding context.

And since 0xEA is simply a byte, it can appear in many data contexts such as color channels, binary files, or network packets where a value of 234 might be meaningful.