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This change improves the performance of Binomial by implementing an
algorithm that produces smaller intermediate values at each step.
Working with smaller big.Int values has the advantage that fewer allocations
and computations are required for each mathematical operation.
The algorithm used is the Multiplicative Formula, which is a well known
way of calculating the Binomial coefficient and is described at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_coefficient#Multiplicative_formula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_coefficient#In_programming_languages
In addition to that, an optimization has been made to remove a
redundant computation of (i+1) on each loop which has a measurable
impact when using big.Int.
Performance improvement measured on an M1 MacBook Pro
running the existing benchmark for Binomial:
name old time/op new time/op delta
Binomial-8 589ns ± 0% 435ns ± 0% -26.05% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
Binomial-8 1.02kB ± 0% 0.08kB ± 0% -92.19% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
Binomial-8 38.0 ± 0% 5.0 ± 0% -86.84% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
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