This document discusses different types of number complements that allow subtraction to be performed using addition. It explains that subtraction using borrowing is inefficient for computers, so instead subtraction is done by taking the complement of one of the numbers and then adding. For binary numbers, the 2's complement is commonly used, where the 2's complement of a number is found by flipping all the bits and adding 1. The document provides examples of calculating 1's, 2's, and other bases' complements.