[MRG] test, and actually fix, find-nullomers script; add documentation and test input file

[ctb]

Fixes #1754.

• [x] Is it mergeable?
• [x] make test Did it pass the tests?
• [x] make clean diff-cover If it introduces new functionality in scripts/ is it tested?
• [x] make format diff_pylint_report cppcheck doc pydocstyle Is it well formatted?
• [x] Did it change the command-line interface? Only backwards-compatible additions are allowed without a major version increment. Changing file formats also requires a major version number increment.
• [x] For substantial changes or changes to the command-line interface, is it documented in CHANGELOG.md? See keepachangelog for more details.
• [x] Was a spellchecker run on the source code and documentation after changes were made?
• [x] Do the changes respect streaming IO? (Are they tested for streaming IO?)

[ctb]

Ready for review & merge.

[ctb]

I super strongly suspect I can get away with a smaller SIZE - SIZE/2, to be specific. Hmm.

[codecov-io]

Codecov Report

Merging #1768 into master will not change coverage. The diff coverage is n/a.

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