The Cantor set and a geometric construction (Q914718)

A well known property of the Cantor ternary set \({\mathcal C}\) is that any real number in [0,2] can be written as the sum of two numbers in \({\mathcal C}\). The author gives a proof of this result, which only uses the geometric definition of \({\mathcal C}\). The proof is accomplished with the inductive, fractal-like construction of a sequence of polygonal curves in [0,1]\(\times [0,1]\), naturally associated with the geometric construction of the two-dimensional Cantor set \({\mathcal C}\times {\mathcal C}\).