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The NOT bitwise operation inverts bits. A 0 becomes a 1. A 1 becomes a 0.
The NOT operator is often written as a tilde character ("~"):
When numbers are printed in base-10, the result of a NOT operation can be surprising. In particular, positive numbers can become negative and negative numbers can become positive. For example:
This is because numbers are (usually) represented using two's complement, where the leftmost bit is actually negative. So flipping the leftmost bit usually flips the sign of the number.
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