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. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
