test: migrate stats/base/dists/laplace/kurtosis 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 @stdlib/stats/base/dists/laplace/kurtosis from relative-tolerance assertions to ULP-based assertions using @stdlib/assert/is-almost-same-value, per the guidance in [RFC]: Migrate math/base/special packages from relative tolerance testing to ULP difference testing (tracking issue) #11352.
• updates both test/test.js and test/test.native.js to mirror the idiom used in previously converted packages (e.g. stats/base/dists/normal/mean, stats/base/dists/frechet/variance, stats/base/dists/erlang/stdev), retaining the existing expected[i] !== null fixture guard.
• replaces the previous 1.0 * EPS * abs( expected[ i ] ) tolerance loops (and their y === expected[i] fast-path branches) in both files with t.strictEqual( isAlmostSameValue( y, expected[ i ], 0 ), true, 'returns expected value' ).
• drops the now-unused @stdlib/math/base/special/abs and @stdlib/constants/float64/eps requires.

The tightest ULP bound was determined empirically by starting at N = 64 and lowering N over the full 100-value Julia fixture set until the minimum passing integer was reached (64 → 8 → 1 → 0, all passing):

• test/test.js: N = 0 ULP (measured minimum; 0 is the tightest bound expressible).
• test/test.native.js: N = 0 ULP (measured minimum). The native add-on was built locally for this package so that the native tests were actually exercised rather than skipped.

This is expected: the excess kurtosis of a Laplace distribution is the constant 3, and both the JavaScript and C implementations return 3.0 verbatim once the NaN/nonpositive-b guards are cleared. Every fixture value therefore matches the Julia reference bit-for-bit, no rounding is introduced, and the previous tolerance branch was never taken.

Both test/test.js (110 assertions) and test/test.native.js (111 assertions, add-on built) were run twice at the final N = 0, all passing, to confirm the bound is deterministic and not subject to FMA/architecture variation. Linting via make lint-javascript-tests TESTS_FILTER=".*/stats/base/dists/laplace/kurtosis/.*" is clean, and only the two test files are changed.

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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Disclosure

This PR was authored by Claude Code (Anthropic) running as an unattended scheduled task. The conversion mirrors the exact idiom used in previously merged ULP migrations authored by the PR author (e.g. #14472, #14434, #14439), and the ULP bound was measured empirically against the existing Julia fixtures for both the JavaScript and the locally built C implementation.

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