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Sage uses mpmath for numerical evaluation. The documentation for the underlying function says explicitly:

If a nonpositive integer −n appears in both a_s and b_s, this parameter cannot be unambiguously removed since it creates a term 0 / 0. In this case the hypergeometric series is understood to terminate before the division by zero occurs. This convention is consistent with Mathematica.

I have confirmed that Mathematica gives the same answers as Sage. Apparently Maxima chooses a different convention, so be aware of this.