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Instead of calling it "ULPs" they refer to a "next floating point number" which I'm pretty sure is the same idea:

> Unlike the number line, for every representable floating point number x, there is a _next_ floating point number, and it is approximately x + ϵmachine x. So for an arbitrary real number x0, it falls between two floating point values x and x+ϵx (leaving off the subscript for conciseness). When we represent x0 in floating point, we will get one of these two values.



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