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Weird Function Challenge II (Posted on 2006-10-01) Difficulty: 5 of 5
Find a continuous, strictly monotonic function f:R->R (R the set of real numbers) which is non-differentiable on a very dense set.

For this problem, we'll call a set of real numbers very dense if it intersects every interval [a,b] in an infinite, uncountable number of elements.

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re(2): Not dense enough ... | Comment 4 of 11 |
(In reply to re: Not dense enough ... by vswitchs)

Thanks for your comment and support, vswitchs.

The function that you reference, at http://www.math.tamu.edu/~tom.vogel/gallery/node7.html, is very interesting, and it is in fact very similar to mine.  For that function, (f(x)-f(y))/(x-y) is always between -1 and 1.  So you can make that function monotonic by just adding g(x) = 3x, after which (f(x)-f(y))/(x-y) is always between 2 and 4.  If it is in fact differentiable nowhere (which I am not sure of yet), then it is a solution to this problem after adding g(x).

 
  Posted by Steve Herman on 2006-10-12 07:42:18

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