Rational points question on Ask Sage

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Samuel Lelièvre

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Feb 14, 2021, 9:21:21 PM2/14/21
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This Ask Sage question reports a possible bug
in computing the height of rational points:

Height of rational points
https://ask.sagemath.org/question/55698

John Cremona

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Feb 15, 2021, 6:34:52 AM2/15/21
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I made trac ticket #31400 for this.   There are some really serious problems caused by someone thinking that the height of a point in projective space is the max of the heights of its *projective* coordinates, which is wrong (and not well-defined).
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