List<T> list = Arrays.asList(strictlyOrderedElements);

    // for use calling Collection.toArray later
    T[] emptyArray = Platform.newArray(strictlyOrderedElements, 0);

    // shoot me, but I didn't want to deal with wildcards through the whole test
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    Scenario<T> starter = new Scenario<>((Ordering<T>) ordering, list, emptyArray);
    verifyScenario(starter, 0);
  }

    Collection<String> set = Sets.newHashSet("a", "b");
    Iterator<String> iterator = skip(set, 2).iterator();
    try {
      iterator.next();
    } catch (NoSuchElementException suppressed) {
      // We want remove() to fail even after a failed call to next().
    }
    try {
      iterator.remove();
      fail("Expected IllegalStateException");
    } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns a new hash set using the smallest initial table size that can hold {@code expectedSize}
   * elements without resizing. Note that this is not what {@link HashSet#HashSet(int)} does, but it
   * is what most users want and expect it to do.
   *
   * <p>This behavior can't be broadly guaranteed, but has been tested with OpenJDK 1.7 and 1.8.
   *
   * @param expectedSize the number of elements you expect to add to the returned set

ensure that you do not use any `@Beta` APIs!**

[Guava Beta Checker]: https://github.com/google/guava-beta-checker

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    for (Field field : cls.getDeclaredFields()) {
      /*
       * Coverage mode generates synthetic fields.  If we ever add private
       * fields, they will cause similar problems, and we may want to switch
       * this check to isAccessible().
       */
      if (!field.isSynthetic() && field.getType() == String.class) {
        builder.add(field);
      }
    }
    return builder.build();
  }

            <!-- Even after we stop using JSR305 annotations in our own code, we'll want this link so that NullPointerTester's docs can link to @CheckForNull and friends... at least once we start using this config for guava-testlib. -->
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 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li><a href="https://dagger.dev/producers.html">Dagger Producers</a>
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>If you do chain your operations manually, you may want to use {@link FluentFuture}.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 * @author Nishant Thakkar
 * @author Sven Mawson
 * @since 1.0
 */
@GwtCompatible(emulated = true)
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault

    /*
     * We use # instead of * for possessive quantifiers. This lets us strip them out when building
     * the regex for RE2 (which doesn't support them) but leave them in when building it for
     * java.util.regex (where we want them in order to avoid catastrophic backtracking).
     */
    String decimal = "(?:\\d+#(?:\\.\\d*#)?|\\.\\d+#)";
    String completeDec = decimal + "(?:[eE][+-]?\\d+#)?[fFdD]?";

          LongMath.biggestBinomials[k] == Integer.MAX_VALUE
              || !fitsInLong(BigIntegerMath.binomial(LongMath.biggestBinomials[k] + 1, k)));
      // In the first case, any long is valid; in the second, we want to test that the next-bigger
      // long overflows.
    }
    int k = LongMath.biggestBinomials.length;
    assertFalse(fitsInLong(BigIntegerMath.binomial(2 * k, k)));

    Collection<String> set = Sets.newHashSet("a", "b");
    Iterator<String> iterator = skip(set, 2).iterator();
    try {
      iterator.next();
    } catch (NoSuchElementException suppressed) {
      // We want remove() to fail even after a failed call to next().
    }
    try {
      iterator.remove();
      fail("Expected IllegalStateException");
    } catch (IllegalStateException expected) {
    }
  }