[issue8692] Use divide-and-conquer for faster factorials

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

And why are we trying to speed up the pure Python factorial code here?  I don't imagine that those speed differences are going to translate well to C.

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