Unfortunately, I can't do these sorts of tests because I can't rebuild
the sage library on my machine right now. However, the only change I
made to the height function was a couple of parentheses, so the
functionality should not be affected in any way, only the output.

On Aug 31, 6:19 pm, Maarten Derickx <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:20 PM, jack <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does this bug affect the height algorithm for points on elliptic
> > curves?
>
> I don't know if this height function is called by the function for
> elliptic curves. The easiest way to find out is I guess to
> (temporarely) put a print statement in your fixed version of the code
> and then call the height function on elliptic curves and see if it
> prints something. It seems quit likely that elliptic curves call the
> numberfield height somewhere. I suggest you test this with an elliptic
> curve over a non trivial numberfield (QQ somtimes behaves differently
> then most numberfields) and also for QQ itself.
>
> The other possibility is reading and understanding the code but this
> might be a lot of work.

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