Commits on Aug 3, 2024

1. Remove unnecessary constants from flt2dec dragon …

   The "dragon" `flt2dec` algorithm uses multi-precision multiplication by
   (sometimes large) powers of 10. It has precomputed some values to help
   with these calculations.
   
   BUT:
   
   * There is no need to store powers of 10 and 2 * powers of 10: it is
     trivial to compute the second from the first.
   * We can save a chunk of memory by storing powers of 5 instead of powers
     of 10 for the large powers (and just shifting by 2 as appropriate).
   * This also slightly speeds up the routines (by ~1-3%) since the
     intermediate products are smaller and the shift is cheap.
   
   In this PR, we remove the unnecessary constants and do the necessary
   adjustments.
   
   Relevant benchmarks before (on my Threadripper 3970X, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu):
   
   ```
   num::flt2dec::bench_big_shortest                      137.92/iter   +/- 2.24
   num::flt2dec::strategy::dragon::bench_big_exact_12   2135.28/iter  +/- 38.90
   num::flt2dec::strategy::dragon::bench_big_exact_3     904.95/iter  +/- 10.58
   num::flt2dec::strategy::dragon::bench_big_exact_inf 47230.33/iter +/- 320.84
   num::flt2dec::strategy::dragon::bench_big_shortest   3915.05/iter  +/- 51.37
   ```
   
   and after:
   
   ```
   num::flt2dec::bench_big_shortest                      137.40/iter   +/- 2.03
   num::flt2dec::strategy::dragon::bench_big_exact_12   2101.10/iter  +/- 25.63
   num::flt2dec::strategy::dragon::bench_big_exact_3     873.86/iter   +/- 4.20
   num::flt2dec::strategy::dragon::bench_big_exact_inf 47468.19/iter +/- 374.45
   num::flt2dec::strategy::dragon::bench_big_shortest   3877.01/iter  +/- 45.74
   ```

   

   swenson committed Aug 3, 2024
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