How does the bitwise complement operator (~ tilde) work?

Question

Why is it that ~2 is equal to -3? How does ~ operator work?

Answer 1

First we have to split the given digit into its binary digits and then reverse it by adding at the last binary digit.After this execution we have to give opposite sign to the previous digit that which we are finding the complent ~2=-3 Explanation: 2s binary form is 00000010 changes to 11111101 this is ones complement ,then complented 00000010+1=00000011 which is the binary form of three and with -sign I.e,-3