allow getpastlogs to accept bn and numbers #7328

Job	Run time
Build CJS (18)	6m 26s
Build CJS (16)	5m 40s
Build Docs (18)	7m 38s
Build Web	38s
Build Types (18)	3m 22s
Build Types (16)	3m 36s
Build ESM (18)	4m 17s
Build ESM (16)	3m 36s
End-to-End ganache:ws (18, electron)	15m 21s
End-to-End ganache:ws (18, chrome)	10m 42s
End-to-End ganache:ws (18, firefox)	12m 16s
End-to-End ganache:ws (16, electron)	15m 38s
End-to-End ganache:ws (16, chrome)	11m 26s
End-to-End ganache:ws (16, firefox)	11m 56s
Integration IPC (18, geth, ipc)	7m 45s
Integration IPC (16, geth, ipc)	7m 26s
Integration Sync Test (18, geth, ws)	37s
Integration Sync Test (18, geth, ipc)	34s
Integration (18, geth, http)	4m 45s
Integration (18, geth, ws)	6m 10s
Integration (18, ganache, http)	4m 34s
Integration (18, ganache, ws)	5m 8s
Integration (16, geth, http)	4m 6s
Integration (16, geth, ws)	6m 30s
Integration (16, ganache, http)	3m 34s
Integration (16, ganache, ws)	5m 11s
Lint	3m 45s
Unit Tests (18)	3m 16s
Unit Tests (16)	3m 16s
	2h 59m 9s

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