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2's complement representation of negative integers follows directly from the definition of basic addition, stop teaching it as if it's some special clever bit twiddling scheme. The most significant bit is not the sign bit, and you do not convert between negative and positive by flipping the bits and adding 1, what bizzaro world do you exist in?

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