Evans,

 
I like how you organized your thoughts into two distinct focus
areas.  First, you talked about "reasons to store the floating-
point numbers in normalized form". Then you explained the
advantage of using bias.  With that, I would offer that
there are also situations where you would use floating-point
data type to represent integers.  They include:
 
 A situation involving JavaScript.  In theory, it does not

have integers; and only supports floating numbers (i.e.,

doubles).
 
 Another situation involves computer graphics.  A

programmer does not need to have exact accuracy in 3D

graphics.  It just needs to "look right."  A programmer will
have many object calculations in 3D space.  Things like
rotating or scaling requires floating point calculations.
The floats are supported by graphics hardware.  They are a
good choice in the domain.
 
Finally, I also noticed that you pointed out that a "computer
can't represent negative integers, so by using this method we
can represent the negative integers".  This understanding
underscores very clear and concise insight.
 
Awesome.
 
Best,
Dan