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Yes. Though it's also interesting to see how Cantor's proof can fail.

Eg you can try to apply Cantor's proof on the list of all integers (written in decimal form) to attempt to prove that the integers aren't countable. Or on a list of all rationals.

The proofs will fail in interesting ways.



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