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public <A HREF="../../../com/sleepycat/collections/StoredSortedValueSet.html" title="type parameter in StoredSortedValueSet">E</A> <B>first</B>()</PRE>
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<DD>Returns the first (lowest) element currently in this sorted set.
 This method conforms to th