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Cantor sets

Cantor sets is the plural of Cantor set.

Meaning of Cantor set

Noun

Cantor set (plural Cantor sets)

  1. A subset of an interval formed by recursively removing an interval in the middle of every connected component of the set.
    • The Lebesgue null sets include not only all countable sets but many sets having the cardinality of the continuum. We now present the standard example, the Cantor set, which is also of interest for other reasons.1999, Gerald B. Folland, Real Analysis : Modern Techniques and Their Applications, 2nd edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, §1.5, page 38
    Synonyms:
    Cantor dust

Questions about Cantor sets

What is Cantor sets the plural of?
Cantor sets is the plural of Cantor set.

Words near Cantor sets in the dictionary

  1. Cantophones
  2. Cantopop
  3. cantor
  4. Cantor dust
  5. Cantor set
  6. Cantor sets
  7. Cantor's diagonal argument
  8. Cantor's theorem
  9. Cantor-Bendixson theorem
  10. cantoral
  11. cantoral staff

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