One's Complement

The sign-magnitude representation has limitations, such as the duplication of zero representations and increased complexity in comparison operations. The inversion-based representation overcomes these limitations and simplifies comparison and arithmetic operations.

What is one’s complement?

One’s complement representation is another way of representing signed numbers. A number’s representation in one’s complement has the same number of bits as the original number, plus a bit called the sign bit on the extreme left (the MSB). The sign bit denotes that the number is negative if ...