Consider a quaternary, normalized floating$-$point number system that is base $4$ with chop$-$

ping. Analogous to a bit, a quaternary digit is a quit. Assume that a hypothetical quaternary

computer uses the following floating$-$point representation:

sm se e$1$ e$2$ q$1$ q$2$ q$3$ q$4$

where sm is the sign of the mantissa and se is the sign of the exp