Added numpy vectorized version of haversine function #26
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I've created a function "haversine_vector" that is merely the original "haversine" function with math library functions replaced with numpy functions in order to rapidly calculate the distance between two arrays of points.
Some quick "timeit" benchmarks indicate that for computing the haversine distance between two points, the vectorized version takes around 1.5 times longer than the regular version, whereas for computing the distance between two sets of 100 points each it's about 24 times faster.