}
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> firstEntry() {
    return isEmpty() ? null : getEntry(0);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable Entry<E> lastEntry() {
    return isEmpty() ? null : getEntry(length - 1);
  }

  @Override
  public int count(@Nullable Object element) {
    int index = elementSet.indexOf(element);

   * java.util.Objects#equals} instead.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("InlineMeSuggester") // would introduce fully qualified references to Objects
  public static boolean equal(@Nullable Object a, @Nullable Object b) {
    return java.util.Objects.equals(a, b);
  }

  /**
   * Generates a hash code for multiple values. The hash code is generated by calling {@link

 * <p>This testing utility is not thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Kevin Bourrillion
 */
@GwtCompatible
public final class MinimalIterable<E extends @Nullable Object> implements Iterable<E> {
  /** Returns an iterable whose iterator returns the given elements in order. */
  public static <E extends @Nullable Object> MinimalIterable<E> of(E... elements) {
    // Make sure to get an unmodifiable iterator

  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E lower(E element) {
    return forward.higher(element);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E floor(E element) {
    return forward.ceiling(element);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E ceiling(E element) {
    return forward.floor(element);
  }

  @Override
  public @Nullable E higher(E element) {
    return forward.lower(element);
  }

    return null;
  }

  static final class BucketOverflowException extends Exception {}

  @Override
  public @Nullable V get(@Nullable Object key) {
    return get(key, table, mask);
  }

  static <V> @Nullable V get(
      @Nullable Object key, @Nullable ImmutableMapEntry<?, V> @Nullable [] keyTable, int mask) {
    if (key == null || keyTable == null) {
      return null;
    }

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * GWT emulation of {@code SortedMultiset}, with {@code elementSet} reduced to returning a {@code
 * SortedSet} for GWT compatibility.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 11.0
 */
public interface SortedMultiset<E extends @Nullable Object> extends Multiset<E>, SortedIterable<E> {
  Comparator<? super E> comparator();

  @Nullable Entry<E> firstEntry();

import org.jspecify.annotations.NullMarked;
import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * A test utility that verifies that your methods and constructors throw {@link
 * NullPointerException} or {@link UnsupportedOperationException} whenever null is passed to a
 * parameter whose declaration or type isn't annotated with an annotation with the simple name
 * {@code Nullable}, {@code CheckForNull}, {@code NullableType}, or {@code NullableDecl}.
 *

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Basic implementation of the {@link SetMultimap} interface. It's a wrapper around {@link
 * AbstractMapBasedMultimap} that converts the returned collections into {@code Sets}. The {@link
 * #createCollection} method must return a {@code Set}.
 *
 * @author Jared Levy
 */
@GwtCompatible
abstract class AbstractSetMultimap<K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object>

import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * Basic implementation of the {@link SetMultimap} interface. It's a wrapper around {@link
 * AbstractMapBasedMultimap} that converts the returned collections into {@code Sets}. The {@link
 * #createCollection} method must return a {@code Set}.
 *
 * @author Jared Levy
 */
@GwtCompatible
abstract class AbstractSetMultimap<K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object>

 *
 * @author Jared Levy
 * @since 2.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
abstract class AbstractListMultimap<K extends @Nullable Object, V extends @Nullable Object>
    extends AbstractMapBasedMultimap<K, V> implements ListMultimap<K, V> {
  /**
   * Creates a new multimap that uses the provided map.
   *
   * @param map place to store the mapping from each key to its corresponding values
   */