Talk:Ones' Complement

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The entire discussion on binary number systems seems muddled and in need of some organizing and better descriptions of things not 2's complement. This article is intended as a start on that effort. If it passes initial muster I'll continue with cleaning and organizing a couple of closely related pages.

KentOlsen (talk) 22:14, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One thing that will help it pass initial muster is a quality source that describes the concept. See WP:Reliable Sources for a long and confusing description of what we consider a good source. If you've got that, keep crackin. (p.S. I'm moving this page to conform with the naming guidelines - WP:MOS) The Interior (Talk) 00:44, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Here's my 2c's worth:

Yes, definitely needs reliable sources - Wikipedia is not the place to write unsourced essays.
According to signed number representations and a lengthy discussion on its talk page, the correct term is "ones' complement", not "one's complement".
The Basics section seems to be plain wrong; surely the whole point of ones' complement is that it replaces subtraction with additon i.e. you do not need to subtract 19, because you add the ones' complement representation of -19 instead.

At the moment, I think that the ones' complement section in the signed number representations article is clearer, more concise and more accurate than this essay. Gandalf61 (talk) 17:09, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]