Not just related—the staircase is built by, in essence, putting stairs on the ternary set. There's enough Cantor set to get from 0 to 1, but not enough to dist

Not just related—the staircase is built by, in essence, putting stairs on the ternary set. There's enough Cantor set to get from 0 to 1, but not enough to disturb the almost-everywhere vanishing of the derivative.