• computergeek125@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    My low level is a tad rusty from when I learned the C side in school, but if I recall the not operator resolves as a single Boolean (0 or 1 in true C), whereas compliment comes back as however many bits you put in - a not operation per bit.

    In C, the not operator is ! and the compliment operator is ~