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

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Resolves a part of #11352.

Description

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This pull request:

• migrates the test suites for stats/base/dists/geometric/stdev from relative tolerance assertions to ULP difference assertions, as described in [RFC]: Migrate math/base/special packages from relative tolerance testing to ULP difference testing (tracking issue) #11352.
• replaces the delta/tol computation (previously 1.0 * EPS * abs( expected[ i ] )) and the associated t.ok( delta <= tol, ... ) / exact-equality branch with a single t.strictEqual( isAlmostSameValue( y, expected[ i ], 1 ), true, 'returns expected value' ) assertion.
• adds a require for @stdlib/assert/is-almost-same-value and removes the now unused @stdlib/math/base/special/abs and @stdlib/constants/float64/eps requires.

The same change is applied to both test/test.js and test/test.native.js.

ULP bound: 1 ULP, for the "the function returns the standard deviation of a geometric distribution" test in both test/test.js and test/test.native.js. This is the measured minimum over the full fixture set (1000 values, test/fixtures/python/data.json); the observed ULP difference distribution is {0: 717, 1: 283}. Lowering the bound to 0 causes 283 test cases to fail, so 1 is the tightest bound which passes. The suite was run twice at the final bound to confirm the result is deterministic.

Only the two test files are changed; no source, documentation, or fixture files were 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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Other

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• test/test.native.js is skipped locally, as the native add-on was not built in this environment. The ULP bound in test/test.native.js mirrors the bound measured for the JavaScript implementation, consistent with prior conversions in this family (e.g., stats/base/dists/negative-binomial/cdf, stats/base/dists/frechet/mode). As an additional check, the C implementation (sqrt( 1.0-p ) / p, per src/main.c) was compiled standalone and evaluated over the full fixture set; its results are bitwise identical to the JavaScript implementation for all 1000 fixture values, so the same bound applies.
• The if ( y === expected[i] ) exact-equality fast path was removed, as isAlmostSameValue already returns true for exactly equal values.

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Disclosure

This PR was authored by Claude Code, running as an automated task. The ULP bound was determined empirically by measuring the ULP difference across the full fixture set and verifying that the next lower bound fails.

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