The Cantor Function
The following images represent a progressive construction of the Cantor function and were created by Mathematica.
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The Cantor function is a continuous increasing function, f(x), for which f(0) = 0 and f(1) = 1. In addition it is a singular function, a function whose derivative is 0 almost everywhere. Finally it represents a function for which the Lebesgue Integral of f ' (x) on [0, 1] has the value of 0, but f(1) - f(0) = 1. Thus the Lebesgue integral of f ' (x) on [0, 1] does not equal f(1) - f(0) .
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