11100010

11100010 is an eight-bit binary sequence that appears in computing and digital communications. As an unsigned byte, its value is 226 in decimal, and it corresponds to the hexadecimal value E2. In an eight-bit two’s complement interpretation, the same bit pattern represents −30, since the most significant bit is 1.

In character encoding contexts, 0xE2 (the hexadecimal form of 11100010) has specific mappings depending on the encoding. In ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) and Windows-1252, the byte 0xE2 maps to the Unicode code point U+00E2, which is the Latin small letter a with circumflex (â). In UTF-8, 0xE2 is a leading byte for a three-byte sequence (the pattern 1110xxxx); it cannot stand alone as a complete character. A well-known example starting with E2 is the Euro sign encoded as the three-byte sequence E2 82 AC, which represents the character € in Unicode.

Practically, 11100010 can occur as a single byte within data streams, files, or network protocols. Its interpretation depends on the surrounding encoding, protocol specification, and whether the data are treated as raw binary, text, or multibyte character data. As such, 11100010 serves as a representative example of how a single byte can play different roles across systems, from numeric value to character encoding to part of a multibyte sequence.