Remove redundant code after numpy < 2.0 is deprecated

[ricardoV94]

I've noticed that some of the code like this is redundant now. E.g. x * np.array(math.log(2.0)).astype(x.dtype) is now the same as x * math.log(2.0) because numpy now uses the type of x here. For backwards compatibility, maybe we should leave the astype conversion for now, but once numpy 1.26 support is dropped, this won't be needed.

Originally posted by @brendan-m-murphy in #1194 (comment)

[Armavica]

Depends on:

• Drop numpy < 2 #1216