quadraticform rational_diagonal_form?    
   I don't understand the factor of "2" ; which also appears in my real problem. Here is the sample code from doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/quadratic_forms/sage/quadratic_forms/quadratic_form.html#sage.quadratic_forms.quadratic_form.QuadraticForm.rational_diagonal_form
Q = QuadraticForm(ZZ, 4, range(10))  
D, T = Q.rational_diagonal_form(return_matrix=True)  
D  
[ -1/16 0 0 0 ]  
[ * 4 0 0 ]  
[ * * 13 0 ]  
[ * * * 563/52 ]
 but
T.transpose() * Q.matrix() * T  
[  -1/8      0      0      0]  
[     0      8      0      0]  
[     0      0     26      0]  
[     0      0      0 563/26]
 Off by a factor of 2?
The description says.
OUTPUT: either D (if return_matrix is false) or (D,T) (if return_matrix is true) where  
D – the diagonalized form of this quadratic form.  
T – transformation matrix. This is such that T.transpose() * self.matrix() * T gives D.matrix().**
 Ray