As A Measure Space
The real line carries a canonical measure, namely the Lebesgue measure. This measure can be defined as the completion of a Borel measure defined on R, where the measure of any interval is the length of the interval.
Lebesgue measure on the real line is one of the simplest examples of a Haar measure on a locally compact group.
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