#4940: dokchitser L-series at least for number fields claims a pole at zero,
though the zeta function has a zero there
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 Reporter:  was            |       Owner:  was       
     Type:  defect         |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  major          |   Milestone:  sage-3.2.3
Component:  number theory  |    Keywords:            
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 {{{
 sage: K.<a> = NumberField(x^2-2)
 sage: z = K.zeta_function()
 sage: z(0)
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
 ArithmeticError:   ###   user error: L*(s) has a pole at s=0
 sage: z(0.0000001)
 -4.40686861437826e-8
 }}}

 Notice that there is in fact a zero at s=0, not a pole as the
 ArithmeticError claims.

 In fact, it's a theorem that there is a zero at s=0 of order the unit rank
 of the number field.

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