How can ARM's MOV instruction work with a large number as the second operand?

Question

I just begin to study ARM assembly language, and am not clear about how to use MOV to transfer an immediate number into a register.

From both the ARM reference manual

Answer 1

A single ARM instruction can only encode an immediate constant that can be represented as an 8-bit immediate value, shifted by any even power of two.

However, there is also a MVN instruction, which is like MOV but inverts all the bits. So, while MOV R2, #0xFFFFFFFF cannot be encoded as a MOV instruction, it can be encoded as MVN R2, #0. The assembler may well perform this conversion for you.