2's complement is essentially a way of coming up with the additive inverse of a binary number. Ask yourself this: Given a number in binary form (present at a fixed length memory location), what bit pattern, when added to the original number (at the fixed length memory location), would make the result all zeros ? (at the same fixed length memory location). If we could come up with this bit pattern then that bit pattern would be the -ve representation (additive inverse) of the original number; as by definition adding a number to its additive inverse always results in zero. Example: take 5 which is 101 present inside a single 8 bit byte. Now the task is to come up with a bit pattern which when added to the given bit pattern (00000101) would result in all zeros at the memory location which is used to hold this 5 i.e. all 8 bits of the byte should be zero. To do that, start from the right most bit of 101 and for each individual bit, again ask the same question: What bit should I add to the current bit to make the result zero ? continue doing that taking in account the usual carry over. After we are done with the 3 right most places (the digits that define the original number without regard to the leading zeros) the last carry goes in the bit pattern of the additive inverse. Furthermore, since we are holding in the original number in a single 8 bit byte, all other leading bits in the additive inverse should also be 1's so that (and this is important) when the computer adds "the number" (represented using the 8 bit pattern) and its additive inverse using "that" storage type (a byte) the result in that byte would be all zeros.

 1 1 1
 ----------
   1 0 1
 1 0 1 1 ---> additive inverse
  ---------
   0 0 0

我喜欢lavinio的回答，但变换部分增加了一些复杂性。通常情况下，可以选择在保留符号位的情况下移动位，或者不保留符号位。这是将数字处理为有符号数字(-8到7表示小块，-128到127表示字节)或全范围无符号数字(0到15表示小块，0到255表示字节)之间的选择。

问题是“什么是“2的补码”?”

对于那些想要从理论上理解它的人(以及我试图补充其他更实际的答案)，简单的答案是:2的补码是对偶系统中不需要额外字符(如+和-)的负整数的表示。

2的补码对于查找二进制值非常有用，但是我想到了一个更简洁的方法来解决这样的问题(从未见过其他人发布它):

以二进制为例:1101(假设空格“1”是符号)等于-3。

使用2的补码，我们可以这样做…翻1101到0010…加上0001 + 0010 ===>得到0011。0011的正二进制= 3。因此1101 = -3!

我意识到:

而不是所有的翻转和加法，你可以只做一个基本的方法来解决正二进制(假设0101)是(23 * 0)+(22 * 1)+(21 * 0)+(20 * 1)= 5。

用否定句做同样的概念!(稍微扭曲一下)

以1101为例:

对于第一个数字，用-(23 * 1)= -8代替23 * 1 = 8。

然后像往常一样，做-8 + (22 * 1)+ (21 * 0)+ (20 * 1)= -3

想象一下，你有有限数量的比特/比特/数字等等。将0定义为所有数字都为0，并自然向上计数:

00
01
02
..

最终你会溢出。

98
99
00

我们有两位数字，可以表示从0到100的所有数字。所有这些数字都是正数!假设我们也想表示负数?

我们真正拥有的是一个循环。2之前的数字是1。1之前的数字是0。0之前的数字是…99.

为了简单起见，我们设任何大于50的数都是负数。0 ~ 49代表0 ~ 49。“99”是-1，“98”是-2，…“50”是-50。

这个表示是十的补数。计算机通常使用2的补码，除了使用位而不是数字之外，它是一样的。

10的补数的好处在于加法运算可以正常进行。你不需要做任何特殊的加法和负数!

补一词来源于完备性。在十进制世界中，数字0到9提供了一个数字或数字符号的补集(完整集)来表示所有的十进制数。在二进制世界中，数字0和1提供了一个数字的补数来表示所有二进制数。事实上，符号0和1必须用来表示所有东西(文本、图像等)以及正(0)和负(1)。 在我们的世界里，数字左边的空白被认为是零:

                  35=035=000000035.

In a computer storage location there is no blank space. All bits (binary digits) must be either 0 or 1. To efficiently use memory numbers may be stored as 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit, 128 bit representations. When a number that is stored as an 8 bit number is transferred to a 16 bit location the sign and magnitude (absolute value) must remain the same. Both 1's complement and 2's complement representations facilitate this. As a noun: Both 1's complement and 2's complement are binary representations of signed quantities where the most significant bit (the one on the left) is the sign bit. 0 is for positive and 1 is for negative. 2s complement does not mean negative. It means a signed quantity. As in decimal the magnitude is represented as the positive quantity. The structure uses sign extension to preserve the quantity when promoting to a register [] with more bits:

       [0101]=[00101]=[00000000000101]=5 (base 10)
       [1011]=[11011]=[11111111111011]=-5(base 10)

用作动词: 2的补语表示否定。这并不意味着消极。意思是如果负数变成正数;如果是正的就是负的。大小是绝对值:

        if a >= 0 then |a| = a
        if a < 0 then |a| = -a = 2scomplement of a

此功能允许使用先求负后加的有效二进制减法。 A -b = A + (-b)

1的补数的官方方法是每一位数用1减去它的值。

        1'scomp(0101) = 1010.

这与逐个翻转或反转每一位是一样的。结果是- 0，这是不受欢迎的，所以给te 1的补码加上1就解决了这个问题。 要求2s的补，先求1s的补，然后加1。

        Example 1                             Example 2
         0101  --original number              1101
         1's comp  1010                       0010
         add 1     0001                       0001
         2's comp  1011  --negated number     0011

在这些例子中，否定也适用于符号扩展数。

添加: 1110进位111110进位 0110与000110相同 1111年 111111年 Sum 0101 Sum 000101

减法:

    1110  Carry                      00000   Carry
     0110          is the same as     00110
    -0111                            +11001
  ----------                        ----------
sum  0101                       sum   11111

请注意，当使用2的补码时，数字左侧的空白区域对于正数用0填充，而对于负数用1填充。进位总是被加上，必须是1或0。

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