two's complement, why the name "two"

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Published on 2010-04-09T00:11:26Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 0:13 UTC
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i know unsigned,two's complement, ones' complement and sign magnitude, and the difference between these, but what i'm curious about is:

  1. why it's called two's(or ones') complement, so is there a more generalize N's complement?
  2. in which way did these genius deduce such a natural way to represent negative numbers?

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