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Control Data Cyber 170 State Hardware Reference Manual page 188

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CP Programming
Nonstandard Operands
In summary, the special operand forms in octal are:
Positive overflow
(+
)
3777x,...,x
Negative overflow
(-
)
4OOOx,
...,
x
Positive indefinite (+IND)
1777x,...,x
Negative indefinite (-IND)
6OOOx,
...,
x
Positive underflow
(+0)
OOOOx,...,x
Negative underflow (-0)
7777x,.
. .
,x
Tables
5-2
through 5-5 indicate the resulting forms when various combinations
of underflow, overflow, and indefinite forms are used in floating-point
operations. The designations W and
N
are defined as follows:
W
Any word except
+
co
and
+
IND
N
Any word except
+
o,
,
+
IND,
and
+
0
Table
5-2.
Xj Plus Xk (30, 32, 34 Instructions)
IND
IND
IND

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