* not consistent with equals, some of the standard implementations may violate the {@code Set}
 * contract.
 *
 * <p>The {@code standard} methods and the collection views they return are not guaranteed to be
 * thread-safe, even when all of the methods that they depend on are thread-safe.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 12.0
 */
@GwtIncompatible
public abstract class ForwardingNavigableSet<E extends @Nullable Object>

 * nullness annotations in particular will outweigh the costs. (And it's worth noting that we have
 * released multiple ListenableFuture.class files that are not byte-for-byte compatible even from
 * the beginning, thanks to using different `-source -target` values for compiling our `-jre` and
 * `-android` "flavors.")
 *

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    start();
  }

  /*
   * TODO: b/318391980 - Once we test only under Java 20 and higher, avoid calling Thread.stop. As
   * of Java 20, it always throws an exception, and as of Java 26, the method does not even exist.
   * For now, we continue using it to clean up under older JDKs.
   *
   * Our usages should at least be *relatively* safe: Typically, threads started by a test are dying

   * the {@code x} and {@code y} values must both have non-zero population variance (i.e. {@code
   * xStats().populationVariance() > 0.0 && yStats().populationVariance() > 0.0}). The result is not
   * guaranteed to be exactly +/-1 even when the data are perfectly (anti-)correlated, due to
   * numerical errors. However, it is guaranteed to be in the inclusive range [-1, +1].
   *
   * <h3>Non-finite values</h3>
   *

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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public

 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
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 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public