        <span class="bold"><strong>ulp</strong></span> for short. A ulp is a quantity whose
        abstract magnitude is relative to the numeric values it corresponds to: If
        the numeric set is not evenly distributed, that is, if the abstract distance
        between consecutive numeric values varies along the set -as is the case with
        the floating-point types-, the magnitude of 1ulp after the numeric value
        <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">x</span></code> might be