10111010

10111010 is an 8-bit binary string commonly encountered in digital data and computer science. As a single byte, its hexadecimal representation is BA. In decimal form, interpreting the pattern as an unsigned value yields 186. If interpreted as an 8-bit signed value using two’s complement, the same bit pattern represents −70.

In character encoding terms, the byte 0xBA corresponds to the masculine ordinal indicator "º" in Latin-1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1), which maps to the Unicode code point U+00BA. In UTF-8, the code point U+00BA is encoded as the two-byte sequence 0xC2 0xBA, so the binary string 10111010 would not appear as a standalone UTF-8 character.

From a bit-pattern perspective, the bits set in 10111010 are at positions 7, 5, 4, 3, and 1 (counting from the most significant bit as position 7). This makes it a useful example for teaching binary arithmetic, bitwise operations, and byte-level data representation. In practical contexts, a byte with this pattern could appear in files, network packets, or memory dumps, where its interpretation depends on the surrounding schema or protocol (unsigned vs. signed values, endianness is not applicable to a single byte, but data interpretation may vary).

Overall, 10111010 serves as a concise illustration of binary-to-decimal, binary-to-hex, and encoding considerations, highlighting how the same bit pattern can correspond to different meanings across numeric, textual, and data-serialization contexts.