Porous Set
In mathematics, a porosity is a concept in the study of metric spaces. Like the concepts of meagre and measure zero sets, porosity is a notion of a set being somehow "sparse" or "lacking bulk"; however, porosity is not equivalent to either of the above notions, as shown below.
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