Cosmetic changes: remove debug import strutils, BigInt.dec "returns" is now a doc comment, remove redundant setting the internal bitlength for modular multiplication

constantine/io/io_bigints.nim

@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@ func fromUint*(
 # Serialising from internal representation to canonical format
 #
 # ############################################################
-import strutils
 
 template toByte(x: SomeUnsignedInt): byte =
   ## At compile-time, conversion to bytes checks the range

constantine/math/bigints_raw.nim

@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ func sub*(a: BigIntViewMut, b: BigIntViewAny, ctl: CTBool[Word]): CTBool[Word] =
 
 func dec*(a: BigIntViewMut, w: Word): CTBool[Word] =
   ## Decrement a big int by a small word
-  # returns the result carry
+  ## Returns the result carry
 
   a[0] -= w
   result = a[0].isMsbSet()

constantine/math/finite_fields.nim

@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ func `*`*(a, b: Fq): Fq {.noInit.} =
   ## It is recommended to assign with {.noInit.}
   ## as Fq elements are usually large and this
   ## routine will zero init internally the result.
-  result.mres.setInternalBitLength()
   result.mres.montyMul(a.mres, b.mres, Fq.C.Mod.mres, Fq.C.getNegInvModWord())
 
 func square*(a: Fq): Fq {.noInit.} =
@@ -135,7 +134,6 @@ func square*(a: Fq): Fq {.noInit.} =
   ## It is recommended to assign with {.noInit.}
   ## as Fq elements are usually large and this
   ## routine will zero init internally the result.
-  result.mres.setInternalBitLength()
   result.mres.montySquare(a.mres, Fq.C.Mod.mres, Fq.C.getNegInvModWord())
 
 func pow*(a: var Fq, exponent: BigInt) =
@@ -171,7 +169,6 @@ func inv*(a: var Fq) =
   ## Modular inversion
   ## Warning ⚠️ :
   ##   - This assumes that `Fq` is a prime field
-
   const windowSize = 5 # TODO: find best window size for each curves
   a.mres.montyPowUnsafeExponent(
     Fq.C.getInvModExponent(),

constantine/math/precomputed.nim

@@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ func doubleMod(a: var BigInt, M: BigInt) =
 func checkOddModulus(M: BigInt) =
   doAssert bool(BaseType(M.limbs[0]) and 1), "Internal Error: the modulus must be odd to use the Montgomery representation."
 
-import strutils
-
 func checkValidModulus(M: BigInt) =
   const expectedMsb = M.bits-1 - WordBitSize * (M.limbs.len - 1)
   let msb = log2(BaseType(M.limbs[^1]))