Produces more reasonable order of attenuation when comparing #3690

Job	Run time
ubuntu-24.04.gcc-13.openmpi.python-3.12	2m 48s
windows-11-arm.cl.exe.msmpi.python-3.13	5m 46s
windows-latest.gcc.exe.msmpi.python-3.13	4m 51s
ubuntu-24.04.clang.openmpi.python-3.12	3m 0s
	16m 25s

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