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Sep 9, 2013 at 7:01 comment added Guido Kanschat I do not think you can go beyond step functions
Jan 31, 2013 at 0:04 comment added Ben Nik: Right, the set of all Riemann integrable functions is too large for my purposes.
Jan 30, 2013 at 13:32 comment added Pietro Majer I don't know a name for this property, but note that any Lebesgue measurable set $F\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ has a subset $E$ (the set of its points of density $1$) with the even stronger property that |B(x,r)∩E|=|B(x,r)|(1+o(1)), and |F\E|=0. (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue_density_theorem ).
Jan 30, 2013 at 13:30 comment added Nik Weaver You might want to reconsider whether you're sure that ${\rm area}(B(x,r) \cap E) > 0$ for all $x \in E$ and $r > 0$. That's not even true for Riemann integrable functions into $\{0,1\}$.
Jan 30, 2013 at 13:28 comment added Jack Huizenga On the Wikipedia page for the Lebesgue density theorem (which is very closely related to what you ask about) it is noted that if $E$ and its complement both have positive measure then there are always points where the "approximate density" is strictly between $0$ and $1$. It is then always possible change $E$ by either including or removing such points.
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