How can 1's complement, and 2's complement have different ranges?

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How can 1's complement, and 2's complement have different ranges?
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For 1's complement: -(2^(n-1)-1) till 2^(n-1)-1. For 2's complement - 2^(n-1) till 2^(n-1)-1
How can 1's complement, and 2's complement have different ranges?
For 1's complement range is for 8 bit register(where first is for sign +, -) from - 127 to 127 and for 2's complement range is from - 128 to 127.

I came accros the fact that for 1's complement we have +0 and - 0, why is that and why we don't have that for 2's complement?

Thank you.
 
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