101110010001
101110010001 is a twelve-bit binary string. As an unsigned integer, it equals 2961 in decimal, and 0xB91 in hexadecimal. When treated as a 12-bit word, the value space ranges from 0 to 4095; if interpreted as a signed two's-complement number, it would encode -1135.
This pattern cannot be directly interpreted as valid BCD digits, since the first nibble 1011 equals 11
In historical computing, 12-bit words were common in early systems such as the PDP-8 family, where 12-bit
As a simple color example, the string can be viewed as a 12-bit RGB value with 4
Because the meaning of the sequence depends on context, 101110010001 is typically used as a compact example