#13166: Compute q-binomial coefficients more efficiently
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   Reporter:  arminstraub    |             Owner:  sage-combinat
       Type:  enhancement    |            Status:  new          
   Priority:  minor          |         Milestone:  sage-5.2     
  Component:  combinatorics  |          Keywords:               
Work issues:                 |   Report Upstream:  N/A          
  Reviewers:                 |           Authors:  Armin Straub 
  Merged in:                 |      Dependencies:               
   Stopgaps:                 |  
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 Currently, q-binomials are calculated as a fraction of products of
 q-integers.  With the attached patch, q-binomials are computed as a
 product of cyclotomic polynomials.  This avoids reducing a fraction of
 polynomials and is significantly faster for larger q-binomial
 coefficients.

 Before:
 {{{
 sage: %timeit q_binomial(18,7)
 125 loops, best of 3: 1.89 ms per loop
 sage: %timeit q_binomial(180,70)
 5 loops, best of 3: 1.4 s per loop
 }}}

 After:
 {{{
 sage: %timeit q_binomial(18,7)
 125 loops, best of 3: 2.01 ms per loop
 sage: %timeit q_binomial2(180,70)
 25 loops, best of 3: 34.7 ms per loop
 }}}

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