* call. To prevent this problem, create a key object that includes all values that affect the
   * result of the query. Or use {@code LoadingCache.get(K)}, which lacks the ability to refer to
   * state other than that in the key.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> as with {@link CacheLoader#load}, {@code loader} <b>must not</b> return
   * {@code null}; it may either return a non-null value or throw an exception.
   *

      }
    }
    return current;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the unique least value of type {@code C} that is greater than {@code value}, or {@code
   * null} if none exists. Inverse operation to {@link #previous}.
   *
   * @param value any value of type {@code C}
   * @return the least value greater than {@code value}, or {@code null} if {@code value} is {@code
   *     maxValue()}
   */

   *
   * <p>To ensure that the created instance obeys its contract, the parameters should satisfy the
   * following constraints. This is the callers responsibility and is not enforced here.
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>Both {@code xStats} and {@code yStats} must have the same {@code count}.
   *   <li>If that {@code count} is 1, {@code sumOfProductsOfDeltas} must be exactly 0.0.

  // in the short hash. We saw that a mask of 0x7f would keep the 7-bit value 0x6f from a full
  // hashcode of 0x89abcdef. The imaginary `hash` value would then be the remaining top 25 bits,
  // 0x89abcd80. To this is added (or'd) the `next` value, which is an index within `entries`
  // (and therefore within `keys` and `values`) of another entry that has the same short hash

   * Reader#skip(long) skip} to the end of the stream, and return the total number of chars that
   * were skipped.
   *
   * <p>Note that for sources that implement {@link #lengthIfKnown} to provide a more efficient
   * implementation, it is <i>possible</i> that this method will return a different number of chars
   * than would be returned by reading all of the chars.

      }
      iterations++;
      if (iterations >= maxIterations) {
        @SuppressWarnings("nullness") // safe because we pass sort() a range that contains real Ts
        T[] castBuffer = (T[]) buffer;
        // We've already taken O(k log k), let's make sure we don't take longer than O(k log k).
        sort(castBuffer, left, right + 1, comparator);
        break;
      }
    }
    bufferSize = k;

  and are Distributed by that particular Contributor. A Contribution
  "originates" from a Contributor if it was added to the Program by
  such Contributor itself or anyone acting on such Contributor's behalf.
  Contributions do not include changes or additions to the Program that
  are not Modified Works.

"Contributor" means any person or entity that Distributes the Program.

    return x > 0 & (x & (x - 1)) == 0;
  }

  /**
   * Returns 1 if {@code x < y} as unsigned longs, and 0 otherwise. Assumes that x - y fits into a
   * signed long. The implementation is branch-free, and benchmarks suggest it is measurably faster
   * than the straightforward ternary expression.
   */
  @VisibleForTesting
  static int lessThanBranchFree(long x, long y) {
    // Returns the sign bit of x - y.

  /**
   * Attempts to skip up to {@code n} bytes from the given input stream, but not more than {@code
   * in.available()} bytes. This prevents {@code FileInputStream} from skipping more bytes than
   * actually remain in the file, something that it {@linkplain java.io.FileInputStream#skip(long)
   * specifies} it can do in its Javadoc despite the fact that it is violating the contract of
   * {@code InputStream.skip()}.
   */

   * combination is that CityHash has a bunch of special cases for short strings that don't need to
   * be replicated here. The result will never be 0 or 1.
   *
   * <p>This function is best understood as a <a
   * href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint_(computing)">fingerprint</a> rather than a true
   * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function">hash function</a>.