</p>

<h3 id="Comparison_operators">Comparison operators</h3>

<p>
Comparison operators compare two operands and yield an untyped boolean value.
</p>

<pre class="grammar">
==    equal
!=    not equal
&lt;     less
&lt;=    less or equal
&gt;     greater
&gt;=    greater or equal
</pre>

<p>
In any comparison, the first operand

     * {@code " x "} (space, letter x, space), followed by the count.
     */
    @Override
    String toString();
  }

  // Comparison and hashing

  /**
   * Compares the specified object with this multiset for equality. Returns {@code true} if the
   * given object is also a multiset and contains equal elements with equal counts, regardless of

         *
         * - Under Android, it does.
         *
         * We want users to see the same behavior when they compare a built-in TypeVariable against
         * ours as they do when they perform the same comparison in reverse. To provide that
         * behavior on all platforms, TypeResolver must return the appropriate TypeVariable
         * implementation in each of the three possible cases:
         *

 * Comparable#compareTo} or {@link Comparator#compare} instead of {@link Object#equals} to determine
 * equivalence of instances.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The comparison must be <i>consistent with equals</i> as explained by the
 * {@link Comparable} class specification. Otherwise, the resulting multiset will violate the {@link

 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>Use immutable value types only, if at all possible. If you must use a mutable type, <b>do
 *       not</b> allow the endpoint instances to mutate after the range is created!
 *   <li>Your value type's comparison method should be {@linkplain Comparable consistent with
 *       equals} if at all possible. Otherwise, be aware that concepts used throughout this

  //   system scheduling and as such we could either miss our deadline, or unpark() could be delayed
  //   so that it looks like we timed out even though we didn't. For comparison FutureTask respects
  //   completion preferably and AQS is non-deterministic (depends on where in the queue the waiter
  //   is). If we wanted to be strict about it, we could store the unpark() time in the Waiter node

   * @since 21.0
   */
  default void forEachEntry(ObjIntConsumer<? super E> action) {
    checkNotNull(action);
    entrySet().forEach(entry -> action.accept(entry.getElement(), entry.getCount()));
  }

  // Comparison and hashing

  /**
   * Compares the specified object with this multiset for equality. Returns {@code true} if the
   * given object is also a multiset and contains equal elements with equal counts, regardless of

 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Several lesser-used features are currently available only as static methods on the {@link
 * Iterables} class.
 *
 * <p><a id="streams"></a>
 *
 * <h3>Comparison to streams</h3>
 *
 * <p>{@link Stream} is similar to this class, but generally more powerful, and certainly more
 * standard. Key differences include:
 *
 * <ul>

 * Comparable#compareTo} or {@link Comparator#compare} instead of {@link Object#equals} to determine
 * equivalence of instances.
 *
 * <p><b>Warning:</b> The comparison must be <i>consistent with equals</i> as explained by the
 * {@link Comparable} class specification. Otherwise, the resulting multiset will violate the {@link

   *     asList(t, null, e, s, null, t, null))
   * }
   *
   * <p>Assuming {@code t}, {@code e} and {@code s} are non-null, this returns {@code [t, e, s, t,
   * null, null, null]} regardless of the true comparison order of those three values (which might
   * not even implement {@link Comparable} at all).
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> by definition, this comparator is not <i>consistent with equals</i> (as