Consider a non-IEEE 754 floating point representation defined as follows:

24 bits total

one sign bit

5 exponents bits using a biased representation

18 significand bits normalized so that there is an implicit 1 bit to the left of the radix point (not to the right as the examples in class used)

Show how each of the following decimal numbers would be represented in this format. Indicate whether the representation are exact or inexact.

a. -123.5

b. 123.2