d></tr>
  </table>
  </dd>
</dl>
<dl class="section return"><dt>Returns</dt><dd>none</dd></dl>
<dl class="section user"><dt>Scaling and Overflow Behavior</dt><dd>The function is implemented using an internal 64-bit accumulator. The input is represented in 1.31 format, and intermediate multiplication yields a 2.62 format. The accumulator maintains full precision of the intermediate multiplication results, but provides only a single guard bit. There is no saturation on intermediate additions. If the accumulat