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Cantor Set (hmc.edu)
7 points by amelius on Jan 31, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


For anyone wondering how we know the Cantor set is uncountable, here is one way:

    Take any real in the interval [0,1)
    Express as a binary expansion
    Convert all the 1's to 2's
    Reinterpret as a ternary number
That forms a bijection between [0,1) and the Cantor set.




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