十九世纪下半叶集合论的创立,奠定了现代数学的基础,著名的“康托三分集”是数学理性思维的构造产物,具有典型的分形特征,其操作过程如下:将闭区间[0,1]均分为三段,去掉中间的区间段
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,记为第1次操作;再将剩下的两个区间
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分别均分为三段,并各自去掉中间的区间段,记为第2次操作...;每次操作都在上一次操作的基础上,将剩下的各个区间分别均分为三段,同样各自去掉中间的区间段:操作过程不断地进行下去,剩下的区间集合即是“康托三分集”,第三次操作后,依次从左到右第三个区间为
,若使前n次操作去掉的所有区间长度之和不小于
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,则需要操作的次数n的最小值为
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