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Cantor Set
Cantor Set
Cantor Set
The picture below shows the first four steps of this process:
Each Ci is closed. Since the arbitrary intersection of closed sets is closed, therefore, C is closed.
Also, C is bounded in [ -1, 1], therefore, it is compact.
Observe that C is the set of all numbers in [0, 1] which have non-terminating ternary expansion
containing only the digits 0 and 2. Moreover, this non-terminating ternary expansion of each
number is unique.
5. Cantor set is nowhere dense
The closure of the Cantor set is the same Cantor set, for it is closed. The interior of the Cantor set
is empty, since it contains no interval. Thus, the Cantor set is nowhere dense: its closure has empty
interior.
6. Cantor set has zero measure (length)
To form the Cantor set, we "removed":
Since everything's happening in the unit interval, what is left of it after the above
removal, i.e. Cantor's set, has length 1 – 1 = 0.