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Description
Previously, our ModulusPolynomialRingZq reduce used the fq_reduce from FLINT. However, the fq objects from FLINT do not support arbitrary moduli and only irreducible polynomials (in general).
In the few special cases that were important for our usecases this never occured, as we have mostly sparse polynomials and the sparse reduce works without the irreducible property.
Gennerally, this meant that the error was unnoticed.
This PR introduces its own sparse reduce function without use of FLINTs function. This removes the underlying dependency to FLINT. The method allows any modulus and any context polynomial (assuming it is monic).
Testing
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