Merge branch 'master' into experimental-version-without-bit-array #527

Job	Run time
Testing on ubuntu-latest with Python version 3.10	24s
Testing on ubuntu-latest with Python version 3.9	22s
Testing on ubuntu-latest with Python version 3.11	24s
Testing on ubuntu-latest with Python version 3.12	24s
Testing on ubuntu-latest with Python version 3.13	23s
	1m 57s

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