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

[Mark Dickinson]

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

Daniel, sorry:  I spent so long writing that last message that I didn't read your update until now.

The new patch looks fine;  same caveat about the overflow check as before.
Let me know when you want me to apply this.

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