A Cantor set is constructed by starting with a line segment, removing the middle third, then removing the middle third from each remaining segment, and repeating this process infinitely. What remains is the Cantor set.

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Tim Palmer

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you start with a line with a finite length and you remove a third the middle third...and you keep doing this literally forever and Cantor set is what is left over

Source

Chaos theory and geometry: can they predict our world? – with Tim PalmerThe Royal Institution
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:02:02 PM

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