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1 Computation of p-Adic Heights and Log Convergence In celebration of John Coates’ 60th birthday Barry Mazur William Stein John Tate Abstract. This paper is about computational questions regarding p-adic height pairings on elliptic curves over a global field K . The main stumbling block to computing them efficiently is in calculating, for each of the completions Kv at the places v of K dividing p , a sin