/**
   * Returns the range containing this key and its associated value, if such a range is present in
   * the range map, or {@code null} otherwise.
   */
  @CheckForNull
  Entry<Range<K>, V> getEntry(K key);

  /**
   * Returns the minimal range {@linkplain Range#encloses(Range) enclosing} the ranges in this
   * {@code RangeMap}.
   *
   * @throws NoSuchElementException if this range map is empty
   */
  Range<K> span();

  /**

      extends AbstractMapEntry<Range<K>, V> {
    private final Range<K> range;
    private final V value;

    RangeMapEntry(Cut<K> lowerBound, Cut<K> upperBound, V value) {
      this(Range.create(lowerBound, upperBound), value);
    }

    RangeMapEntry(Range<K> range, V value) {
      this.range = range;
      this.value = value;
    }

    @Override
    public Range<K> getKey() {
      return range;
    }

   * Range#contains contained} by the range.
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if neither range nor the domain has a lower bound, or if
   *     neither has an upper bound
   * @since 13.0
   */
  public static <C extends Comparable> ContiguousSet<C> create(
      Range<C> range, DiscreteDomain<C> domain) {
    checkNotNull(range);
    checkNotNull(domain);

  private final int k;
  private final Comparator<? super T> comparator;

  /*
   * We are currently considering the elements in buffer in the range [0, bufferSize) as candidates
   * for the top k elements. Whenever the buffer is filled, we quickselect the top k elements to the
   * range [0, k) and ignore the remaining elements.
   */
  private final @Nullable T[] buffer;
  private int bufferSize;

  /**

  /** Converts a Range to a GeneralRange. */
  @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes") // https://github.com/google/guava/issues/989
  static <T extends Comparable> GeneralRange<T> from(Range<T> range) {
    T lowerEndpoint = range.hasLowerBound() ? range.lowerEndpoint() : null;
    BoundType lowerBoundType = range.hasLowerBound() ? range.lowerBoundType() : OPEN;

    T upperEndpoint = range.hasUpperBound() ? range.upperEndpoint() : null;

  }

  @Override
  @CheckForNull
  public abstract Range<C> rangeContaining(C value);

  @Override
  public boolean isEmpty() {
    return asRanges().isEmpty();
  }

  @Override
  public void add(Range<C> range) {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
  }

  @Override
  public void remove(Range<C> range) {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
  }

  @Override

 *
 * <h3>Only {@code %s} is supported</h3>
 *
 * <p>{@code Preconditions} uses {@link Strings#lenientFormat} to format error message template
 * strings. This only supports the {@code "%s"} specifier, not the full range of {@link
 * java.util.Formatter} specifiers. However, note that if the number of arguments does not match the
 * number of occurrences of {@code "%s"} in the format string, {@code Preconditions} will still

          protected char[] escapeUnsafe(char c) {
            return noChars;
          }
        };
    EscaperAsserts.assertBasic(deletingEscaper);
    assertEquals(
        "Everything outside the printable ASCII range is deleted.",
        deletingEscaper.escape(
            "\tEverything\0 outside the\uD800\uDC00 "
                + "printable ASCII \uFFFFrange is \u007Fdeleted.\n"));
  }

    // Compare to: "\u00c1".equalsIgnoreCase("\u00e1") == true
    assertFalse(Ascii.equalsIgnoreCase("\u00c1", "\u00e1"));
    // Test chars just outside the alphabetic range ('A'-1 vs 'a'-1, 'Z'+1 vs 'z'+1)
    assertFalse(Ascii.equalsIgnoreCase("@", "`"));
    assertFalse(Ascii.equalsIgnoreCase("[", "{"));
  }

  @GwtIncompatible // String.toUpperCase() has browser semantics

       */
      for (int i = 0; i < elements.size() - 1; i++) {
        assertEquals(elements.get(i) + 1, (int) elements.get(i + 1));
      }
      Range<Integer> range =
          elements.isEmpty() ? Range.closedOpen(0, 0) : Range.encloseAll(elements);
      return ContiguousSet.create(range, DiscreteDomain.integers());
    }
  }