*       traffic to {@code charlie}, rather than letting {@code bravo} keep its traffic.
   * </ul>
   *
   * <p>See the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_hashing">Wikipedia article on
   * consistent hashing</a> for more information.
   */
  public static int consistentHash(HashCode hashCode, int buckets) {
    return consistentHash(hashCode.padToLong(), buckets);
  }

  /**

   * <p>The {@code hash} has the following properties:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>It is <i>consistent</i>: for any reference {@code x}, multiple invocations of {@code
   *       hash(x}} consistently return the same value provided {@code x} remains unchanged
   *       according to the definition of the equivalence. The hash need not remain consistent from
   *       one execution of an application to another execution of the same application.

   *
   * <p>The {@code hash} has the following properties:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>It is <i>consistent</i>: for any reference {@code x}, multiple invocations of {@code
   *       hash(x}} consistently return the same value provided {@code x} remains unchanged
   *       according to the definition of the equivalence. The hash need not remain consistent from
   *       one execution of an application to another execution of the same application.

   * required, to have the following properties:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>Its execution does not cause any observable side effects.
   *   <li>The computation is <i>consistent with equals</i>; that is, {@link Objects#equal
   *       Objects.equal}{@code (a, b)} implies that {@code predicate.apply(a) ==
   *       predicate.apply(b))}.
   * </ul>
   *

 * {@code equals} would break symmetry, as the forwarding object might consider itself equal to the
 * object being tested, but the reverse could not be true. This behavior is consistent with the
 * JDK's collection wrappers, such as {@link java.util.Collections#unmodifiableCollection}. Use an
 * interface-specific subclass of {@code ForwardingObject}, such as {@link ForwardingList}, to

    }
    return totalSize;
  }

  /**
   * Peeks into the cache's internals to check its internal consistency. Verifies that each
   * segment's count matches its #elements (after cleanup), each segment is unlocked, each entry
   * contains a non-null key and value, and the eviction and expiration queues are consistent (see
   * {@link #checkEviction}, {@link #checkExpiration}).
   */
  static void checkValidState(Cache<?, ?> cache) {

      assertTrue(item + " must be equivalent to itself", equivalence.equivalent(item, item));
      assertEquals(
          "the hash of " + item + " must be consistent",
          equivalence.hash(item),
          equivalence.hash(item));
    }
  }

 * equality for both keys and values. This may not be the desired behavior for map implementations
 * that use non-standard notions of key equality, such as the entry of a {@code SortedMap} whose
 * comparator is not consistent with {@code equals}.
 *
 * <p>The {@code standard} methods are not guaranteed to be thread-safe, even when all of the
 * methods that they depend on are thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Mike Bostock
 * @author Louis Wasserman

   * required, to have the following properties:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>Its execution does not cause any observable side effects.
   *   <li>The computation is <i>consistent with equals</i>; that is, {@link Objects#equal
   *       Objects.equal}{@code (a, b)} implies that {@code predicate.apply(a) ==
   *       predicate.apply(b))}.
   * </ul>
   *

        && doubleToLongBits(sumOfProductsOfDeltas) == doubleToLongBits(other.sumOfProductsOfDeltas);
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> This hash code is consistent with exact equality of the calculated statistics,
   * including the floating point values. See the note on {@link #equals} for details.
   */
  @Override
  public int hashCode() {