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Sand, Mark

Adding and subtracting in the Cantor set. (English) Zbl 1444.97020

Coll. Math. J. 50, No. 1, 41-45 (2019).
Summary: Any element of \([0,2]\) can be written as the sum of two elements of the Cantor set, and any element of \([-1,1]\) can be written as the difference of two elements of the Cantor set. Several solution methods for both of these statements are shown.

MSC:

97I99 Analysis education
97I30 Sequences and series (educational aspects)
28A80 Fractals
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