ones' complement

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The convention by which bit patterns with high bit 0 represent positive numbers from 0 to 2^{n-1} - 1 directly, while bit patterns with high bit 1 represent negative numbers from 0 to -(2^{n-1} - 1), n being the word size of the machine, and the numeric complement of a number is its ones' complement

Computers that use ones' complement arithmetic have two representations for zero, all 0's and all 1's.

The number obtained by subtracting a given n-digit binary number from 2^n - 1 (which yields the same result as the logical complement)

The ones' complement of 0xAAAA is 0x5555 on a 16-bit machine, and 0xFFFF5555 on a 32-bit machine.

ones' complement
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