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tests: simplify random_fe_non_zero (remove loop limit and unneeded normalize)
`random_fe_non_zero` contains a loop iteration limit that ensures that
we abort if `random_fe` ever yielded zero more than ten times in a row.
This construct was first introduced in PR #19 (commit 09ca4f3) for
random non-square field elements and was later refactored into the
non-zero helper in PR #25 (commit 6d6102f). The copy-over to the
exhaustive tests happened recently in PR #1118 (commit 0f86420).
This case seems to be practically irrelevant and I'd argue for keeping
things simple and removing it; if there's really a worry that the test's
random generator is heavily biased towards certain values or value
ranges then there should consequently be checks at other places too
(e.g. directly in `random_fe` for 256-bit values that repeatedly
overflow, i.e. >= p).
Also, the _fe_normalize call is not needed and can be removed, as the
result of `random_fe` is already normalized.
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