Elementary 2.2

[quarter_to_five]

Y'what? Sherlock has never heard of P vs NP? I've heard of P vs NP. I mean, come on, it occasionally makes the news and stuff. And the solution was soooo bad. Hm, a digital video providing an alibi for a programmer and a mathematician who do groundbreaking cryptography work, I wonder what could possibly have happened. Sheesh.

The money subplot was kind of interesting, just because flat-out money, salary, obligation-via-money, etc, conversations are so borderline taboo and excruciatingly awkward. So yay for that.

Comments

[saturnofthemoon]

Then again, the original Sherlock Holmes didn't know the earth revolved around the sun because it wasn't necessary knowledge. (I'd love to see that addressed in on Elementary.) I guess P vs NP could go in the same category...

[lookingforoctober]

It bugged me that they acted like any solution to the problem meant the end of cryptography, when the problem has two possible solutions, and I'm pretty sure the more likely answer to the question of whether P equals NP is no. In which case, the status quo remains the same, and cryptography is safe. It's just that then everyone knows.

But I've never heard of this problem outside of computer science classes, so Sherlock not knowing about it didn't bug me at all.