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5 proofs

"Math washing" a spreadsheet (presenting empirical observations as universal theorems) is valid scientific practice.

DISPROVED mathematics 2026-03-28
Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica — criterion of falsifiability, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — scientific method, Catalog of Bias — data-dredging bias

Fewer than 20 percent of the positive integers from 1 to 1000 are prime.

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The 100000th prime number is exactly 1299709.

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The Goldbach conjecture holds for every even integer greater than 2.

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The integer 1 is a prime number.

DISPROVED mathematics 2026-03-28