"a" in Binary

Binary Code

01100001

"a" in binary is: 01100001

Character breakdown

CharASCIIBinaryHex
a970110000161

How binary encoding works

Each character in "a" is converted to its ASCII code, then written in 8-bit binary. For example, the letter "a" has ASCII code 97, which is 01100001 in binary.

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