11001100

11001100 is an eight-bit binary number commonly written as 0b11001100. In hexadecimal, it corresponds to CC, and in decimal it equals 204 when interpreted as an unsigned value. As a binary sequence, it is composed of the pattern 1100 1100.

In numeric terms, 11001100 represents 204 if treated as an unsigned integer. When interpreted as a signed eight-bit value using two's complement, the most significant bit is 1, and its value is -52.

The bit pattern 11001100 can be described as two ones followed by two zeros, repeated twice (grouped as 1100 1100). Each nibble is 1100, which equals 12 in hexadecimal. This structure makes 11001100 a convenient example for illustrating nibble-wide operations in low-level programming and digital design.

In practical computing, 0xCC is often used as a bit mask. It masks the upper two bits in each nibble of a byte (binary 1100 1100). Its bitwise complement within the same nibble pattern is 0x33 (0011 0011). Such masks are used in bit-manipulation techniques to separate or extract nibbles during data processing.

In character encoding terms, the byte value 0xCC corresponds to the character Ì in ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252. In Unicode, the code point is U+00CC, but UTF-8 encodes that character as two bytes (C3 8C). Thus, 11001100 can represent different characters depending on the encoding context.

Overall, 11001100 is a simple, widely used example in binary representation, showing how a fixed bit pattern maps to numeric values, masks, and character encodings across different systems.