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Additional sanity checks and renormalization in NR waveform generation.

Ian Harry requested to merge ian-harry/lalsuite:nrwaveform_accuracy_fix into master

There's quite a long discussion about this in #144 (closed). In short it seems common to have NR waveforms with small imprecisions (in this case two vectors that should be orthogonal are only "close-to-orthogonal"). To try to resolve this I've added some tests to the code so that it will fail outright, and clearly, if these vectors are not really-close-to-orthogonal. If they are really-close-to-orthogonal I've added some renormalizations to avoid the possibility of the code failing for specific input values.

Assigned to @sebastian-khan as he is familiar with the history here.

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