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    7 hours ago

    The same how a complementary color is the “opposite” color on the color circle. You invert all the bits to go around the number space circle (mathematically called a “field”). Opposed to normal number spaces this one is a circle since overflowing a binary number (ie all bits being 1 and adding one) will reset you back to 0.