Conjectures with the strongest numerical evidence later proven to be false

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For a number of conjectures in number theory, the truth of some statement has been checked up to extremely large values. E.g. There are no odd perfect numbers below $10^{1500}$

Are there any examples where a conjecture eas believed to be true, and also had huge empirical evidence that it should be true, but was later proven to be false?

asked Mar 11 '23 at 23:19

Davis Yoshida

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https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/514/conjectures-that-have-been-disproved-with-extremely-large-counterexamples – Will Mar 11 '23 at 23:26
Thanks, I'll close the question – Davis Yoshida Mar 11 '23 at 23:27

Conjectures with the strongest numerical evidence later proven to be false

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