A pair of closed orientable flat three-manifolds with equal scalar Laplace-Beltrami operator spectra but different first Betti numbers, respectively one and zero. Consequently they are not homeomorphic. They cannot be isospectral for the Hodge Laplacian on one-forms, whose zero-eigenvalue multiplicity is the first Betti number. This shows why the spectrum on functions must not be silently replaced by the spectra on all differential forms.

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