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

[Mark Dickinson]

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

> It's a matter of taste, but I was taught that C allows trailing commas
> in initializers specifically for the cases like this to avoid using a
> leading comma.

Unfortunately, I think C89 doesn't allow for this, and there are tracker issues about Python compiles failing on some platforms (AIX?) thanks to extra trailing commas in the source.  I prefer the extra comma too, but it's not legal C89.

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