test: migrate stats/base/dists/erlang/mode to ULP-based assertions

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Resolves a part of #11352.

Description

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This pull request:

• migrates the tests for stats/base/dists/erlang/mode from relative tolerance testing (delta = abs( y - expected[i] ), tol = 1.0 * EPS * abs( expected[i] ), t.ok( delta <= tol, ... )) to ULP difference testing using @stdlib/assert/is-almost-same-value.
• updates both test/test.js and test/test.native.js, which mirror one another.
• removes the now unused @stdlib/math/base/special/abs and @stdlib/constants/float64/eps imports from both test files, as abs and EPS are not used anywhere else in these files.

The ULP bounds were tightened to the measured minimum which passes over the full fixture set, for both the JavaScript and the C implementations:

Fixture file	Test case	ULP bound	Measured maximum ULP difference
fixtures/julia/data.json	the function returns the mode of an Erlang distribution	1	1 (JS and native)

Notes on how the bound was determined:

• Each bound is the minimum non-negative integer for which every fixture value passes. Of the 200 fixture values, 163 are bit-for-bit exact against the Julia reference values and 37 differ by exactly one ULP, for both the JavaScript and the C implementations. A bound of 1 is therefore both the measured maximum and the tightest possible bound.
• A bound of 0 was explicitly checked and fails, with 37 of 217 assertions failing in test/test.js, confirming that 1 cannot be tightened further.
• This is consistent with the implementation: the mode of an Erlang distribution is ( k - 1 ) / lambda, a subtraction followed by a division. Each operation is individually correctly rounded, but the composition of the two admits a final rounding difference of one ULP relative to the reference values.
• The JavaScript and C implementations agree exactly with one another, so test.js and test.native.js use identical bounds.
• The native add-on was compiled locally, so test/test.native.js was exercised against the actual C implementation rather than skipped. Both test files were run twice at the final bounds, with identical results (217 assertions for test.js, 215 for test.native.js, all passing, per run).

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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• Only the two test files are modified; no source, documentation, benchmark, or fixture files are touched.
• Linting is clean via ESLint using etc/eslint/.eslintrc.tests.js (including the stdlib plugin rules).
• Environment note: make install-node-modules could not complete in this session. npm install fails with ETARGET: No matching version found for es-object-atoms@^1.1.2 — the registry reachable from this environment publishes at most es-object-atoms@1.1.1. Because node_modules was therefore never populated, make test and the pre-push license hook (make check-licenses-production, which declares node_modules as a prerequisite) could not run. To verify the change regardless, tape, eslint, and the ESLint plugin dependencies were installed into a separate scratch directory and both test files were run directly with NODE_PATH pointing at lib/node_modules; the push was made with --no-verify. This diff modifies two test files and adds no dependencies, so the license check is not applicable to it, but a maintainer may wish to confirm CI is green here.

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