[Rafael-SOWNet]

Builds Spouge's constants for the factorial without a power and an exponential each. The first factorial at a precision is 36 to 145 times faster, with the same digits. Part of #2075.

What was slow. The factorial of a non-integer is Spouge's approximation, with a = 1.3 P constants at P digits, cached per precision. Each constant c_k = (-1)^(k - 1) (a - k)^(k - 1/2) e^(a - k)/(k - 1)! was made with a power to a non-integer exponent and an exponential. That is a logarithm and two exponentials at 1.95 P digits for each of the 1.3 P terms.

Now. (a - k)^(k - 1)/(k - 1)! is a ratio of exact integers, sqrt(a - k) one square root, and e^(a - k) the running product of e. The product is carried with ten more digits and rounded back.

first factorial at	master	this
100 digits	0.93 s	0.12 s
300 digits	20.5 s	0.57 s
600 digits	218 s	1.5 s
1000 digits		5.5 s
2000 digits		30 s

The values are unchanged. I checked Gamma(1/3), Gamma(1/3 + i), Gamma(2/7), Gamma(-7/3), Gamma(101/2) and Gamma(-5/2 + 3i) against mpmath. They have the same error on both builds at 100 and 300 digits, within 1.3 units of the last digit, and stay within that at 600 and 1000. Once the constants exist, an evaluation at 100 digits costs the same on both builds, 7 to 10 ms.

Measured on Rubi's suite, with the harness that reads GAMMA, against this branch's base 3dbae246, the whole corpus each side:

	3dbae246	this
solved	48,875 of 49,052	48,880
wrong	0	0
timeouts	7	2
rows lost		0

The five gains are the timeouts #2088 also ended: 6.1.1:205-207 and 6.1.3:98/100. The harness checks each answer again at 300 and 2000 digits, which put a gamma function at a new precision. Allocation per stream is 0.9998, 1.0000 and 0.9960 of the base's. The times, 1.04, 1.08 and 0.98, were taken with other builds running on the machine, and the trigonometric family, at 1.08, does not reach this code. Two rows' allocation grew in the run, 6.1.7:196 and 8.1:302. Alone they are the same on both builds: 1.079 GB each, and 1.406 against 1.407 GB.

A test of (1/3)! and (1/3 + i)! at 300 digits is added. The suite passes (16,940), and so do the MCP tests (329).

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