Characterization of dense open subsets of the real numbers

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Does the complement of every dense open subset of the real numbers have Lebesgue measure $0$?

This is certainly not a characterization of dense open subsets of reals, since the complement of the irrationals(which is not open) has Lebesgue measure $0$. So, is there any useful characterization of dense open subsets of the reals? Also, please mention what happens if the Axiom of Choice is not assumed.

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No, it does not. Fix an enumeration of the rationals $\{r_k\}_{k = 0}^{\infty}$ and put an open interval

$$\mathcal{O}_k = \left(r_k - \frac{1}{2^{k + 1}}, r_k + \frac{1}{2^{k + 1}}\right)$$

around this point. Define $$\mathcal{O} = \bigcup_k \mathcal{O}_k$$

in which case $\mathcal{O}$ is an open, dense subset of $\mathbb{R}$ with Lebesgue measure at most $2$ (and by lengthening any one of the intervals, we can make it exactly $2$); hence its complement has infinite measure (and as far as I see, choice has nothing to do with this).

This can be modified easily so that the complement has arbitrarily large or small (finite) measure. I don't really see that there's a useful (measure-theoretic) characterization beyond the definition.