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what does the -'ve sign in front of a variable do?

ie:

say a is binary 00001111

and we perform this operation:

a = -a;

what would a now be equal to?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    It makes it the opposite, sign wise. Try it out using your computer's pre-installed calculator.

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