11010110

11010110 is an eight-bit binary string commonly used to denote a single byte in computing and digital electronics. As a representation of data, it can function as a numeric value, a bit pattern, or a unit of information within a binary stream.

As a number, 11010110 equals 214 in decimal when interpreted as an unsigned binary value. Its hexadecimal form is D6. When treated as an eight-bit signed integer in two’s complement, the value is −42.

In character encoding terms, the byte 0xD6 corresponds to the letter Ö (capital O with diaeresis) in ISO/IEC 8859-1 and Windows-1252. In Unicode, the character Ö has the code point U+00D6. The UTF-8 encoding of that character is the two-byte sequence C3 96, not the single byte 0xD6 itself.

In practical computing contexts, 11010110 may appear as data in memory, as a flag or control pattern, or as part of bitwise operations and masking. Its interpretation depends on the surrounding architecture, such as whether the byte is treated as unsigned data, a signed value, or as part of a multi-byte encoding scheme. The example 11010110 thus illustrates how a single binary byte can represent different concepts across numeric, encoding, and data-processing contexts.