Bitwise negation on double throws error [duplicate]

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Its late night and Im little embarrased to ask:

Why bitwise negation on double type throws error?

I understand how double-precision floating point is stored in memory, but I sure am missing something...

double left = 1;
double nLeft = ~(left);

error: invalid argument type 'double' to unary expression
  double nLeft = ~(left);
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