static StringBuilder newStringBuilderForCollection(int size) {
    checkNonnegative(size, "size");
    return new StringBuilder((int) Math.min(size * 8L, Ints.MAX_POWER_OF_TWO));
  }

  /**
   * Returns a {@link Collection} of all the permutations of the specified {@link Iterable}.
   *
   * <p><i>Notes:</i> This is an implementation of the algorithm for Lexicographical Permutations

  // are replaced by a single `elements` array but everything else works similarly.

  /**
   * The hashtable object. This can be either:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>a byte[], short[], or int[], with size a power of two, created by
   *       CompactHashing.createTable, whose values are either
   *       <ul>
   *         <li>UNSET, meaning "null pointer"
   *         <li>one plus an index into the entries and elements array

  }

  /**
   * Determines whether a BMP character is lower case according to {@linkplain
   * Character#isLowerCase(char) Java's definition}.
   *
   * @deprecated Some lowercase characters are supplementary characters; see the class
   *     documentation.
   * @since 19.0 (since 1.0 as constant {@code JAVA_LOWER_CASE})
   */
  @Deprecated
  public static CharMatcher javaLowerCase() {

   * value} is greater than {@code max}, {@code max} is returned.
   *
   * @param value the {@code float} value to constrain
   * @param min the lower bound (inclusive) of the range to constrain {@code value} to
   * @param max the upper bound (inclusive) of the range to constrain {@code value} to
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code min > max}
   * @since 21.0

 * George: [Washington, Bush, Bush]
 * Grover: [Cleveland, Cleveland]        // Two, non-consecutive terms, rep'ing NJ!
 * ...
 * }</pre>
 *
 * <h3>Views</h3>
 *
 * <p>Much of the power of the multimap API comes from the <i>view collections</i> it provides.
 * These always reflect the latest state of the multimap itself. When they support modification, the

   * save that if that location is already full, we try the next index, and the next, until we
   * find an empty table position.  Since the table has a power-of-two size, we use
   * & (table.length - 1) instead of % table.length, though.
   */

  @CheckForNull private final transient Object hashTable;

  static StringBuilder newStringBuilderForCollection(int size) {
    checkNonnegative(size, "size");
    return new StringBuilder((int) Math.min(size * 8L, Ints.MAX_POWER_OF_TWO));
  }

  /**
   * Returns a {@link Collection} of all the permutations of the specified {@link Iterable}.
   *
   * <p><i>Notes:</i> This is an implementation of the algorithm for Lexicographical Permutations

    rangeMap.put(Range.closedOpen(18, 19), 3);

    rangeMap.putCoalescing(Range.closedOpen(-5, -4), 0); // disconnected
    rangeMap.putCoalescing(Range.closedOpen(-6, -5), 0); // lower than minimum

    rangeMap.putCoalescing(Range.closedOpen(2, 4), 1); // between
    rangeMap.putCoalescing(Range.closedOpen(9, 14), 0); // different value
    rangeMap.putCoalescing(Range.closedOpen(17, 20), 3); // enclosing

    ValueSet(@ParametricNullness K key, int expectedValues) {
      this.key = key;
      this.firstEntry = this;
      this.lastEntry = this;
      // Round expected values up to a power of 2 to get the table size.
      int tableSize = Hashing.closedTableSize(expectedValues, VALUE_SET_LOAD_FACTOR);

      @SuppressWarnings({"rawtypes", "unchecked"})
      @Nullable

  abstract ImmutableSortedSet<E> tailSetImpl(E fromElement, boolean inclusive);

  /** @since 12.0 */
  @GwtIncompatible // NavigableSet
  @Override
  @CheckForNull
  public E lower(E e) {
    return Iterators.<@Nullable E>getNext(headSet(e, false).descendingIterator(), null);
  }

  /** @since 12.0 */
  @Override
  @CheckForNull
  public E floor(E e) {