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TimeBench, a flexible, easy-to-use, and reusable software library written in Java that provides foundational data structures and algorithms for time- oriented data in Visual Analytics.

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package timeBench.data;

/**
 * Extent on the bottom granularity.
 * 
 * 
 * Every anchored temporal element has a lifespan (extent on the bottom
 * granularity) bounded by Inf (infimum - minimum chronon) and Sup (supremum -
 * maximum chronon)
 * 
 * @author Rind
 * 
 */
public interface Lifespan {

    /**
     * Get the infimum (begin of lifespan for anchored time primitives).
     * 
     * @return the infimum
     */
    public abstract long getInf();

    /**
     * Get the supremum (end of lifespan for anchored time primitives).
     * 
     * @return the supremum
     */
    public abstract long getSup();

}