Skip to main content
2 of 3
added (continuum-hypothesis) tag
Martin Sleziak
  • 4.7k
  • 4
  • 35
  • 40

A strange planar set and the Continuum Hypothesis

Call a number abnormal if its decimal expansion doesn't feature every digit an infinite number of times. Call a triangle in ${\Bbb R}^2$ abnormal if at least one of its angles spans an abnormal fraction of $2\pi$ radians.

Assuming the Continuum Hypothesis, by the obvious transfinite induction one gets a set $M$ so small that no three of its points form an abnormal triangle, but so large that every point of ${\Bbb R}^2$ either falls in $M$ or else occurs as the midpoint of two points in $M$.

Does such an $M$ exist in ZFC?

David Feldman
  • 17.6k
  • 8
  • 67
  • 135