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You might find it useful to play around with this: https://thesis.laszlokorte.de/demo/number-circle.html https://thesis.laszlokorte.de/demo/number-circle.html And notice how „just using the sign bit“ and the 2compl are just different ways to align interepretations with bit patterns. But using the 2compl is the alignment that does not require special cases for handling the negative numbers as opposed to the positive numbers.