How does the "route" utility make sense of the data in /proc/net/route?

result of cat /proc/net/route:

Iface   Destination     Gateway         Flags   RefCnt  Use     Metric  Mask            MTU     Window  IRTT                                                       
wlo1    00000000        0100A8C0        0003    0       0       600     00000000        0       0       0                                                                             
wlo1    0000A8C0        00000000        0001    0       0       600     00FFFFFF        0       0       0

result of route:

IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         _gateway        0.0.0.0         UG    600    0        0 wlo1
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     600    0        0 wlo1

I am sensing that some kind of hex codes are being used, but I am still not able to understand how 0100A8C0 translates to _gateway (same for the rest).