test: migrate stats/base/dists/discrete-uniform/median to ULP-based assertions - #14339

Resolves a part of #11352.

Description

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This pull request:

• migrates the tests for stats/base/dists/discrete-uniform/median from relative tolerance assertions to ULP-based assertions.

Specifically, in test/test.js and test/test.native.js, the if ( y === expected[i] ) { ... } else { delta/tol ... } branch is replaced by

t.strictEqual( isAlmostSameValue( y, expected[ i ], 0 ), true, 'returns expected value' );

along with the corresponding require of @stdlib/assert/is-almost-same-value and the removal of the now unused @stdlib/math/base/special/abs and @stdlib/constants/float64/eps requires.

ULP bound: 0 in both test/test.js and test/test.native.js.

The bound was determined empirically by computing, for every entry in the Julia fixture set (1000 cases), the minimum ULP difference required for the assertion to hold. The maximum required over the full fixture set is 0, i.e., every returned value is bit-identical to the expected value, so 0 is the minimum admissible bound. The test suite was run twice at the final bound to confirm determinism (1008 assertions passing on each run).

This result is consistent with the implementations: the JS implementation returns ( a/2 ) + ( b/2 ) and the C implementation returns ( a + b ) / 2.0, both of which are exact for integer-valued a and b in the tested range, and both of which agree bit-for-bit with the fixture values. Note that the native tests are skipped when the native add-on has not been built, so the native bound was additionally checked by evaluating the C expression over the same fixture set.

Only the two test files are modified; no source, fixture, or documentation files are touched.

Related Issues

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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

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The conversion mirrors the idiom used in the previously merged sibling package stats/base/dists/discrete-uniform/stdev (#14337).

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This PR was authored by Claude Code running as an unattended scheduled task: it selected the package, studied previously merged ULP migrations for the idiom, applied the test changes, and determined the minimum ULP bound empirically over the fixture set.

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