Noun
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construction of the Cantor set
Cantor set (plural Cantor sets)
(mathematical analysis, topology) A subset of an interval formed by recursively removing an interval in the middle of every connected component of the set.
A column capital from the Ancient Egyptian site of the island of Philae carries a pattern which resembles the Cantor set. Source: Internet
A subset of the Cantor set which is not Borel measurable The Borel measure is not complete. Source: Internet
Every point of the Cantor set is also an accumulation point of the complement of the Cantor set. Source: Internet
For any point in the Cantor set and any arbitrarily small neighborhood of the point, there is some other number with a ternary numeral of only 0s and 2s, as well as numbers whose ternary numerals contain 1s. Source: Internet
However, the set of endpoints of the removed intervals is countable, so there must be uncountably many numbers in the Cantor set which are not interval endpoints. Source: Internet
In fact, every compact metric space is a continuous image of the Cantor set. Source: Internet