The document discusses different methods for representing signed binary numbers:
1) Sign-magnitude notation represents positive and negative numbers by using the most significant bit to indicate the sign (0 for positive, 1 for negative) and the remaining bits for the magnitude.
2) One's complement represents negative numbers by inverting all bits of the positive number.
3) Two's complement, the most common method, represents negative numbers by inverting all bits and adding 1 to the result. This allows simple addition to perform subtraction.