It seems to be a precision issue; the error disappears when increasing the precision.
>From within Sage: sage: point.height(precision=200) 242.47010035195076100129810400142304776375572634483556206582 Or directly in PARI: gp > \p 100 realprecision = 115 significant digits (100 digits displayed) gp > ellheight(F, Q) %7 = 242.47010035195076100129810400142304776375572634483556206582073967312482167584 Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.