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Binary doesn't work that way. The Two's Complement system is used to represent negative numbers in binary. The system works a bit like a milometer. If the milometer is set at 00000 and is turned back one mile, it would read 99999. A negative binary number always has a 1 as the first bit. This is often referred to as the sign bit. ................
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