Fix/exact boundaries only

[YeungOnion]

the work in #410 fixes a few things, one being that ULPs comparison wasn't being used, I must have misunderstood the way approx did things when I wrote those macros.

In a sense, this removes the work from #410 by making the macros only use ULPs comparison, and then it goes in an does some removal of special cases.

The other thing that is addresses is taking a wide range of input and "snapping" it to exact values when they're close. This change emphasizes not doing that and to not treat cases as special when they work within another regime's branch, perhaps because that branch will handle it as special, but it shoves the potentially duplicated complexity of checking edge cases upstream.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change removes tolerance-based boundary short circuits in beta and gamma calculations, updates ULP comparison defaults, and adds regression tests for near-boundary and subnormal inputs.

Changes

Numerical boundary behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
ULP comparison defaults src/prec.rs	ULP wrappers now use zero as the default epsilon. The documentation describes rounding-only and FMA-dependent differences.
Beta boundary evaluation and tests src/function/beta.rs	checked_beta_reg always evaluates the logarithmic expression. Tests cover monotonicity near one, reflected values near zero, and small b values below one.
Gamma boundary validation src/function/gamma.rs	checked_gamma_lr no longer uses tolerance-based zero short circuits. Tests cover subnormal inputs, monotonicity, underflow floors, and bounded results.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 996d1

The change narrows boundary handling to exact values without introducing a merge-blocking risk; only minor comments describing removed behavior should be updated as routine follow-up.

Suggested reviewers: day01

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

src/function/beta.rs (1)

633-645: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Update comments that describe removed boundary branches.

The comments describe tolerance-based short circuits as active behavior. Those branches were removed in this PR. Describe the historical regression or the numerical property under test instead.

• src/function/beta.rs#L633-L645: remove the claim that checked_beta_reg has a bt short-circuit boundary.
• src/function/gamma.rs#L790-L796: remove the claim that a == 0.0 short-circuit guards still exist.
• src/function/gamma.rs#L815-L826: describe the former behavior in the past tense.

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In `@src/function/beta.rs` around lines 633 - 645, Update the comments describing
removed boundary behavior: in src/function/beta.rs lines 633-645, remove the
claim that checked_beta_reg has an active bt short-circuit; in
src/function/gamma.rs lines 790-796, remove the claim that a == 0.0 guards still
exist; and in src/function/gamma.rs lines 815-826, describe the former behavior
in the past tense while preserving the numerical property under test.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/function/beta.rs`:
- Around line 633-645: Update the comments describing removed boundary behavior:
in src/function/beta.rs lines 633-645, remove the claim that checked_beta_reg
has an active bt short-circuit; in src/function/gamma.rs lines 790-796, remove
the claim that a == 0.0 guards still exist; and in src/function/gamma.rs lines
815-826, describe the former behavior in the past tense while preserving the
numerical property under test.

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[YeungOnion]

@day01 I'd appreciate feedback if you can, this is sort of in response to what was surfaced and resolved in #410 but takes a different stance.