Digital systems represent information using discrete binary values of 0 and 1 rather than continuous analog values. Binary numbers use a base-2 numbering system with place values that are powers of 2. There are various number systems like decimal, binary, octal and hexadecimal that use different number bases and represent the same number in different ways. Complements are used in binary arithmetic to perform subtraction by adding the 1's or 2's complement of a number. The 1's complement is obtained by inverting all bits, while the 2's complement is obtained by inverting all bits and adding 1.
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