refactor: multiplication and division by scalars was a bad idea for `… #1854

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Clang-18 (arm64) C++23 fmtlib none Release	1m 4s
Clang-18 (x86-64) C++20 std::format gsl-lite Debug	1m 23s
Clang-18 (x86-64) C++23 std::format none Debug	1m 20s
GCC-12 C++20 fmtlib gsl-lite Debug	1m 0s
GCC-12 C++20 fmtlib ms-gsl Release	1m 2s
GCC-12 C++23 fmtlib ms-gsl Debug	53s
GCC-13 C++20 std::format gsl-lite Debug	38s
GCC-13 C++20 std::format none Release	53s
GCC-14 C++20 fmtlib none Release	42s
GCC-14 C++20 std::format gsl-lite Debug	39s
MSVC 14.4 C++20 fmtlib gsl-lite Debug	1m 33s
MSVC 14.4 C++20 std::format gsl-lite Debug	1m 52s
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