A local level set of a Takagi-van der Waerden function is an equivalence class
under a digit-based relation finer than equality of function values. Fix an integer and write the base-
expansion of
as
with , choosing the terminating expansion
when there are two. Let
be 1 when the fractional part of
is less than
and
otherwise, and put
.
Two points
and
belong to the same local level set iff, for every
,
and, whenever
, either
or
(Jiang et al. 2026). Each such
equivalence class is contained in a level
set of
. When
, the digit condition is automatic,
giving the classical definition for the blancmange
function (Jiang et al. 2026).