To convert a signed binary int to a decimal number, use the following algorithm. We illustrate the algorithm on two four-bit examples: 1110 and 0101. 1  If the leftmost bit is a 1, the number is negative. Do the following... (1110 starts with a 1. It's negative.)  Flip all the bits in the number.
chalice (plural chalices) A large drinking cup, often having a stem and base and used especially for formal occasions and religious ceremonies. 1612, William Shakespeare, Macbeth (First Folio), act 1, scene 7, This euen-handed IuÅ¿tice.
1 A linen altar-cloth; especially, a corporal.  n. A linen cloth used to cover the chalice; a chalice-pall. This is now the usual meaning of pall as a piece of altar-linen. Formerly one corner of the corporal covered the chalice; the use of a separate pall, however, is as old as the twelfth century.