test: migrate stats/base/dists/discrete-uniform/stdev to ULP-based assertions

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Resolves a part of #11352.

Description

What is the purpose of this pull request?

This pull request:

• migrates the tests for stats/base/dists/discrete-uniform/stdev from relative tolerance testing to ULP difference testing, per [RFC]: Migrate math/base/special packages from relative tolerance testing to ULP difference testing (tracking issue) #11352.

Changes are confined to the package's test files (test/test.js, test/test.native.js):

• adds the @stdlib/assert/is-almost-same-value require and removes the now unused @stdlib/math/base/special/abs and @stdlib/constants/float64/eps requires.
• removes the delta/tol declarations and the if ( y === expected[i] ) { ... } else { ... } tolerance branch.
• replaces the fixture-loop assertion with t.strictEqual( isAlmostSameValue( y, expected[ i ], 1 ), true, 'returns expected value' );.

No implementation, fixture, or documentation files are touched, and no test cases were added, removed, or otherwise altered.

ULP bound

The converted assertion loop uses an ULP value of 1, which is the measured minimum.

The bound was measured rather than guessed: computing the exact ULP difference (via @stdlib/number/float64/base/ulp-difference) between the computed value and the expected fixture value for all 1000 fixtures (test/fixtures/julia/data.json) yields a maximum observed ULP difference of 1.

Verification:

• test/test.js — 1008 assertions (1000 fixture comparisons + 8 edge-case assertions), all passing at ULP bound 1.
• The full suite was run twice at the final ULP value with identical results, to confirm the bound is not sensitive to FMA/architecture-dependent rounding.
• test/test.native.js was updated identically for consistency with the JS implementation's idiom; the native add-on was not compiled in this environment, so those assertions are skipped (as they were prior to this change, since lib/native.js is not built by default).
• ESLint reports no problems for the two changed files.

Related Issues

Does this pull request have any related issues?

This pull request has the following related issues:

• [RFC]: Migrate math/base/special packages from relative tolerance testing to ULP difference testing (tracking issue) #11352

Questions

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No.

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Disclosure

This PR was authored by Claude Code running as an unattended scheduled task. It studied the issue and previously merged ULP migrations in the same package family (notably the sibling package stats/base/dists/discrete-uniform/cdf, #14311) to match the established idiom, applied the mechanical test conversion, and empirically measured the minimum ULP bound before verifying the test suite.

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