Bit inversion

Many popular programming languages implement bit inversion as an operation. For example, in JavaScript, bit inversion is known as a 'bitwise NOT' and is implemented as seen below:

var a = 2;
var b = ~ a;

In this example, a is a 32-bit signed integer and in binary would be 00000000000000000000000000000010. Variable b is the bit inversion of variable a and equals 11111111111111111111111111111101 (−3 in decimal).

In Python:

>>> a = 2
>>> b = ~ a
>>> b
-3

• Bitwise operation
• Bit error
• Two's complement

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