Cantor ternary set

Cantor ternary set

[′kän·tȯr ′tər·nə·rē ‚set]
(mathematics)
A perfect, uncountable, totally disconnected subset of the real numbers having Lebesgue measure zero; it consists of all numbers between 0 and 1 (inclusive) with ternary representations containing no ones.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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