A$.$ The Hewlett$-$Packard $2114,2115,$ and $2116$ used a format with the leftmost $16$ bits being the fraction stored in two's complement format, followed by another $16-$bit field which had the leftmost $8$ bits as an extension of the fraction $($making the fraction $24$ bits long$),$ and the rightmost $8$ bits representing the exponent. However, in an interesting twist, the exponent was stored in sign$-$magnitude format with the sign bit on the far right!

Write down the bit pattern to represent $\backslash (-1\mathrm{.}5625\backslash$times $10^\{-1\}\backslash )$ assuming this format. No hidden $1$ is used. Comment on how the range and accuracy of this $32-$bit pattern compares to the single precision IEEE $754$ standard.