Take a line segment of length 1. We'll call it
.
Now remove the middle third. Call what's left
.
Now remove the middle third of each line segment in
. Call what's left
.
We can keep doing this, at each stage removing the middle third of each
of the line segments in
to form
.
Draw pictures of
and
.
If we suppose that the end points of
are 0 and 1, then we can mark
on the end points of the line segments for the later
too. For example,
has end points
,
,
and
as shown
below.
Draw
and label the end points, and label the end points on
your pictures of
and
.
We can keep removing middle thirds infinitely many times. The set of points
left having done it infinitely many times is called the Cantor set.
Which of the following points are in the Cantor set?
,
,
,
.
Explain how you decided which
belong and which don't.