* instance.
       */
      super("");
    }

    @Override
    Comparable<?> endpoint() {
      throw new IllegalStateException("range unbounded on this side");
    }

    @Override
    boolean isLessThan(Comparable<?> value) {
      return true;
    }

    @Override
    BoundType typeAsLowerBound() {
      throw new IllegalStateException();
    }

      int[] quotients = new int[indexes.length];
      int[] remainders = new int[indexes.length];
      // The indexes to select. In the worst case, we'll need one each side of each quantile.
      int[] requiredSelections = new int[indexes.length * 2];
      int requiredSelectionsCount = 0;
      for (int i = 0; i < indexes.length; i++) {

   *     then this is not logically a {@code Converter} at all, and should just implement {@link
   *     Function}.
   */
  @ForOverride
  protected abstract A doBackward(B b);

  // API (consumer-side) methods

  /**
   * Returns a representation of {@code a} as an instance of type {@code B}.
   *
   * @return the converted value; is null <i>if and only if</i> {@code a} is null
   */
  @CheckForNull

       * instance.
       */
      super("");
    }

    @Override
    Comparable<?> endpoint() {
      throw new IllegalStateException("range unbounded on this side");
    }

    @Override
    boolean isLessThan(Comparable<?> value) {
      return true;
    }

    @Override
    BoundType typeAsLowerBound() {
      throw new IllegalStateException();
    }

        // Important to null this out here - if we did *not* execute inline, we might still
        // run() on the same thread that called execute() - such as in a thread pool, and think
        // that it was happening inline. As a side benefit, avoids holding on to the Thread object
        // longer than necessary.
        submitting = null;
      }
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("ShortCircuitBoolean")
    @Override
    public void run() {

 * will return {@code true} for many domains which (currently) are not hosts, such as {@code "com"},
 * but given that any public suffix may become a host without warning, it is better to err on the
 * side of permissiveness and thus avoid spurious rejection of valid sites. Of course, to actually
 * determine addressability of any host, clients of this class will need to perform their own DNS
 * lookups.
 *

          } else {
            return logFloor + 1;
          }
        }
        // Since sqrt(2) is irrational, log2(x) - logFloor cannot be exactly 0.5
        //
        // To determine which side of logFloor.5 the logarithm is,
        // we compare x^2 to 2^(2 * logFloor + 1).
        BigInteger x2 = x.pow(2);
        int logX2Floor = x2.bitLength() - 1;

                    uniqueElements, hashCode, hashTable, hashTable.length - 1, size);
          } else {
            result = construct(size, contents);
            // construct has the side effect of deduping contents, so we update size
            // accordingly.
            size = result.size();
          }
          forceCopy = true;
          hashTable = null;
          return result;
      }

   *     then this is not logically a {@code Converter} at all, and should just implement {@link
   *     Function}.
   */
  @ForOverride
  protected abstract A doBackward(B b);

  // API (consumer-side) methods

  /**
   * Returns a representation of {@code a} as an instance of type {@code B}.
   *
   * @return the converted value; is null <i>if and only if</i> {@code a} is null
   */
  @CheckForNull

 * endpoint) or <i>closed</i> (includes the endpoint) on that side. With three possibilities on each
 * side, this yields nine basic types of ranges, enumerated below. (Notation: a square bracket
 * ({@code [ ]}) indicates that the range is closed on that side; a parenthesis ({@code ( )}) means
 * it is either open or unbounded. The construct {@code {x | statement}} is read "the set of all