262144

262,144 is an integer that equals 2^18, making it a power of two. It is also a perfect square and a perfect cube, since 2^18 = (2^9)^2 = (2^6)^3, and thus a perfect sixth power (2^18 = 8^6).

In different representations, 262,144 is written in binary as 1000000000000000000 and in hexadecimal as 0x40000; in decimal it remains 262,144. It equals 256 multiplied by 1024, so it is commonly described as 256 KiB in computer storage, given that 1 KiB equals 1024 bytes.

From a divisor perspective, all divisors of 2^18 are the powers of two from 2^0 through 2^18, giving 19 divisors in total. The sum of its divisors is 2^19 − 1 = 524,287, which is a prime number (a Mersenne prime).

In computing contexts, 262,144 bytes is a frequent memory size and a convenient binary-aligned block used in various architectures, filesystem allocations, and memory management schemes. Its status as a power of two underpins many aspects of digital address spaces and storage calculations.