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A while back I thought I had some simple knots that "fooled" SnapPea. But I no longer remember those examples, if I ever had them to begin with.

What I'm looking for is a non-hyperbolizable knot or link in S^3 for which SnapPea thinks it finds a hyperbolic structure on the complement. Do you have such an example? I'm interested in the examples that work in SnapPea -- it's fine if Snap or the Harriet Moser criterion "knows" the gluing equations are not satisfied.

edit: to make my question more rigid, can you find an unknot (or a trivial link) for which SnapPea thinks there is a hyperbolic structure?

In case this is all jargon to you, SnapPea is software used primarily for finding and exploring hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds: http://www.math.uic.edu/~t3m/SnapPy/doc/

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