11100110

11100110 is an eight-bit binary numeral. As an unsigned binary value, it represents the decimal number 230 (128 + 64 + 32 + 4 + 2). In an eight-bit two's complement system used for signed integers, the same bit pattern represents the value −26, since the most significant bit is 1 (negative) and the two's complement of 11100110 is 00011010, which is 26.

In hexadecimal, 11100110 corresponds to 0xE6. In many text encodings, 0xE6 maps to the Latin small letter ae (æ) in ISO/IEC 8859-1 (Latin-1) and related single-byte encodings; in Unicode, the code point for æ is U+00E6, while UTF-8 encodes this character as the two-byte sequence C3 A6 rather than a single 0xE6 byte.

The pattern 11100110 can appear in various computing contexts. It may be used as a data byte in binary streams, a value in color channels when using 8 bits per channel (where 230 is a high-intensity component), or as part of bitfields and flags where the top three bits are set. Its interpretation depends on the surrounding system’s numeric representation (unsigned, signed, or encoded character). In digital electronics and computer architecture, such eight-bit patterns are common building blocks for instructions, data, and control signals.