Cantor set

bedi · Aug 19, 2012

Why there is no interior points in a Cantor set? Please explain me in detail.

micromass · Aug 19, 2012

What did you try already?

bedi · Aug 19, 2012

I've been watching a lecture and didn't understand why there wouldn't be any point whose neighbourhood is completely surrounded by the cantor set. Oh I think I start to grasp it now, since every interval's "middle" is removed and that process goes on forever, every point's neighbourhood becomes somewhat "incomplete". Am I wrong?

lavinia · Aug 19, 2012

What is the measure of the Cantor set?

bedi · Aug 19, 2012

I don't know that measure thing yet...

lavinia · Aug 19, 2012

bedi said: ↑

I don't know that measure thing yet...

OK. Tr describing the Canor set in the trinary system.

Bacle2 · Aug 19, 2012

Notice that like Lavinia said,the terms in the (Standard) Cantor set C have no 1's in

their base-3 expansion. Now try to show,given x in C --so that there are no

1's in the decimal expansion of x -- that, no matter how close you go about x in

(x-e,x +e ) , you will hit a number y in (x-e,x+e) ,whose decimal expansion _does_

have a 1 in it . Hint: you can cut-off the decimal expansion of x at any point,

as far back as you want.

bedi · Aug 20, 2012

Thank to all of you. But 1/3 is included in the cantor set and in trinary it's 0.1 isn't it? I see there is no finite trinary number in the set but why is 0.1 included?

edit: Now I think I'm okay. In the trinary number system, 1/3 can be written not only as 0.1 but also as 0.222222...