Complement (mathematics)

Complement (mathematics)

Complement has a variety of uses in mathematics:

* complement, an operation that transforms an integer into its additive inverse, useful for subtracting numbers when only addition is possible, or is easier
* complement, a system for working with signed numbers in computer science
** Ones' complement
** Two's complement

* Complement graph
* Complement (group theory)
* Complement (set theory)
* Complement operator (regular expressions)

* Complementary angles
* Complementary event
* Complementary subspaces

* Complements in Boolean algebra
* Knot complement
* Orthogonal complement
* Method of complements
* Relatively complemented lattice
* Schur complement
* Complement of a point, the dilation of a point in the centroid of a given triangle, with ratio -1/2


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