Cantor set
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Cantor set
After G. Cantor
Example Sentences
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Or maybe it’s more like all roads start from the Cantor set.
From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2018
Sometimes it seems like in the world of interesting mathematical examples, all roads lead to the Cantor set.
From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2018
It feels like everywhere I turn, I run into the Cantor set.
From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2018
For every point x in the Cantor set, we have a line connecting x to p.
From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2015
In Cantor’s leaky tent, the countably many endpoints of the Cantor set are paired with the countably many rational points on the line to p.
From Scientific American • Jun. 20, 2015
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