Devil's staircase

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The Devil's staircase (also known as the Cantor function) is a function $c \colon [0,1] \rightarrow [0,1]$ can be expressed by the following rules:

  1. Write $x$ in base-3.
  2. If that representation of $x$ contains a $1$, replace every digit after the first $1$ with $0$'s.
  3. Replace all $2$'s with $1$'s.
  4. The resulting expansion defines $c(x)$.

Properties

Devil's staircase is continuous
Devil's staircase is not absolutely continuous

Videos

The Devil's Staircase | Infinite Series (19 May 2017)
Devil's Staircase (19 February 2017)
Intro Real Analysis, Lec 15, Uniform Continuity, Monotone Functions, Devil's Staircase, Derivatives (5 October 2016)
Cantor's staircase (25 November 2014)

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