How to contribute
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Thank you so much for wanting to contribute to Guava! Here are a few important
things you should know about contributing:

1.  API changes require discussion, use cases, etc. Code comes later.
2.  Pull requests are great for small fixes for bugs, documentation, etc.
3.  Pull requests are not merged directly into the master branch.
4.  Code contributions require signing a Google CLA.

API changes
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that is--"Be what you would seem to be"--or if you'd like it put
more simply--"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
what it might appear to others that what you were or might have
been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared
to them to be otherwise."'

  `I think I should understand that better,' Alice said very
politely, `if I had it written down:  but I can't quite follow it
as you say it.'

  SortedMap<K, V> create(Object... elements);

  /**
   * Returns an entry with a key less than the keys of the {@link #samples()} and less than the key
   * of {@link #belowSamplesGreater()}.
   */
  Entry<K, V> belowSamplesLesser();

  /**
   * Returns an entry with a key less than the keys of the {@link #samples()} but greater than the
   * key of {@link #belowSamplesLesser()}.
   */
  Entry<K, V> belowSamplesGreater();

     * In that explanation's notation, our `overlap` check would be `x1 < y2 && y1 < x2`. We've
     * flipped one part of the check so that we're using "less than" in both cases (rather than a
     * mix of "less than" and "greater than"). We've also switched to "strictly less than" rather
     * than "less than or equal to" because of *handwave* the difference between "endpoints of
     * inclusive ranges" and "Cuts."
     */

   *
   * @param value any value in the range of the {@code byte} type
   * @return the {@code byte} value that equals {@code value}
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code value} is greater than {@link Byte#MAX_VALUE} or
   *     less than {@link Byte#MIN_VALUE}
   */
  public static byte checkedCast(long value) {
    byte result = (byte) value;
    checkArgument(result == value, "Out of range: %s", value);
    return result;
  }

   *     <ul>
   *       <li>{@code x} is infinite or NaN
   *       <li>{@code x}, after being rounded to a mathematical integer using the specified rounding
   *           mode, is either less than {@code Integer.MIN_VALUE} or greater than {@code
   *           Integer.MAX_VALUE}
   *       <li>{@code x} is not a mathematical integer and {@code mode} is {@link
   *           RoundingMode#UNNECESSARY}
   *     </ul>
   */

   *
   * @param value any value in the range of the {@code short} type
   * @return the {@code short} value that equals {@code value}
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code value} is greater than {@link Short#MAX_VALUE} or
   *     less than {@link Short#MIN_VALUE}
   */
  public static short checkedCast(long value) {
    short result = (short) value;
    checkArgument(result == value, "Out of range: %s", value);
    return result;
  }

 * ImmutableMultiset}. The GWT supersource for this class contains a field of type {@code E}.
 *
 * <p>For details about this hack, see {@code GwtSerializationDependencies}, which takes the same
 * approach but with a subclass rather than a superclass.
 *
 * <p>TODO(cpovirk): Consider applying this subclass approach to our other types.
 *
 * <p>For {@code ImmutableMultiset} in particular, I ran into a problem with the {@code

   *
   * @param a the first unsigned {@code long} to compare
   * @param b the second unsigned {@code long} to compare
   * @return a negative value if {@code a} is less than {@code b}; a positive value if {@code a} is
   *     greater than {@code b}; or zero if they are equal
   */
  public static int compare(long a, long b) {
    return Longs.compare(flip(a), flip(b));
  }

  /**