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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ia Paper 1 12F ii Solution by
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Let be the union of the closed intervals remaining after steps of the Cantor set construction. Their total length is . Any point outside has a ternary expansion with a among its first digits, so . Endpoints of deleted intervals also belong to because they have an alternative ternary expansion containing a , as in .
A partition using all endpoints of has lower Darboux sum at leastSince is dense, every upper Darboux sum is one. Letting gives equal upper and lower integrals, and therefore
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