100000011

100000011 is a binary numeral consisting of nine digits. When interpreted as binary data, it represents the integer 259 in decimal. In hexadecimal form, the same value is 0x103. The 9-bit pattern can be described as 1 000000 11, with a leading 1, six zeros, and a trailing pair of ones.

Binary numbers like this appear in various computing contexts, including low-level programming, digital signaling, and compact data encoding. Nine-bit values are less common than 8- or 16-bit values, but they can occur in specialized formats, such as fields within a protocol, error-detecting schemes, or historical architectures.

In Unicode and character encoding discussions, the decimal value 259 corresponds to the code point U+0103 (hex 0103), which is the Latin small letter a with breve. This is an example of how a numeric value can map to different representations in different systems; the binary string itself is simply one way to encode the same numeric value.

See also: binary numeral, decimal, hexadecimal, Unicode code points.