#7576: improvements to the prove_BSD function
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   Reporter:  rlm              |       Owner:  cremona      
       Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  needs_work   
   Priority:  major            |   Milestone:  sage-4.3.1   
  Component:  elliptic curves  |    Keywords:               
Work_issues:                   |      Author:  Robert Miller
   Upstream:  N/A              |    Reviewer:               
     Merged:                   |  
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Changes (by rlm):

  * status:  positive_review => needs_work


Comment:

 For 438e1 and 960d1, we get:
 {{{
 RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call
 last)

 /home/wstein/<ipython console> in <module>()

 /home/wstein/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-
 packages/sage/schemes/elliptic_curves/ell_rational_field.pyc
 in prove_BSD(self, verbosity, simon, proof, secs_hi)
   6372                 print 'p = 2: true by 2-descent'
   6373         else:
 -> 6374             raise RuntimeError("ord2(#Sha) was computed to be
 %d, but ord2(#Sha_an) is %d for this curve (%s)! This may be a
 counterexample to BSD, but is more likely a
 bug."%(sha_ord_2,sha_an.ord(2),self))
   6375
   6376         # reduce set of remaining primes to a finite set

 RuntimeError: ord2(#Sha) was computed to be 1, but ord2(#Sha_an) is 0
 for this curve (Elliptic Curve defined by y^2 + x*y + y = x^3 - 130*x
 - 556 over Rational Field)! This may be a counterexample to BSD, but
 is more likely a bug.
 }}}

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