Other Intellectual

This thread is specifically devoted to discussing other intellectual topics besides chess.

I've read all of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, and they are one of my favorite fiction series that I have read. I've watched a little bit of Sherlock, and it's a good show, but I feel that the modern adaptation aspect makes it a little less authentic (especially when technology is a part of the plot). There are also some clear deviations from the original stories in the show- for example, the relationship between Sherlock and Mycroft in the show is much more complex than in the stories. My favorite Sherlock Holmes story is "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" - I think it shows, more than any other story, how Holmes uses Occam's Razor and eliminates the unlikely possibilties (of supernatural influences in this case) quicker than anyone else does, then proceeds to solve the mystery as he usually does.

I'd like to ask a favor of any members of this group who can fluently read German- I love math and I'm trying to read a copy of Riemann's Nachlauss, which features much of his great mathematical work, including on the Riemann Hypothesis. I know very little German and though I can understand the mathematics portion of the Nachlauss, the majority of the work is text. I would like to get as much as I can out of the Nachlauss and I would be very much in gratitude to anyone who can help translating it. I've attached the link to the PDF of the copy I'm trying to read. Thank you in advance.

https://archive.org/details/bernardrgesamm00riemrich

mein sohn:

i very much dislike the bbc version of  sherlock holmes.  sherlock holmes would never use nicotine patches.  sherlock holmes was a creature of victorian england and he upheld victorian values and victorian prejudices.

this is the loss.  political correctness has emptied victorian england of the truth.

the sherlock holmes recall comes in two departments.  the first is the stories of doyle and as a child, most importantly, were the wartime movies of world war two where sherlock and nigel defended england.

this is the sherlock i remember.  the movies and tv shows afterward may be entertaining but they are not the true sherlock holmes, who used his intelligence instead of theatrics and gimmicks.

i forgive the young who do not understand the value of what i write about.  i do not forgive their parents.

the parents have failed england.  you wanted benefits more than you wanted to be englishmen ( thus the problem in scotland ).

i am learning C++, just programmed a big exponent calculator.

it shows 9^500 =
1322070819480806636890455259752144365965422032752148167664920368
2268285973467048995407783138506080619639097776968725823559509545
8210061891186534272525795367402762022519832080387801477422896484
1274390400117588618041128947815623094438061566173054086674490506
1781254803444055470543970388958174653682549161362208302685637785
8229022841639830788789691855640408489893760937324217184635993869
5516765018940588109060426089671438864102814350385648747165832010
614366132173102768902855220001

That's very interesting. I've always wanted to learn C++ or another one of the C  languages. How do you program a calculator in C++?

And meanwhile, in Python (or wolframalpha.com, I guess ), you could just type in 9**500 

just instructions to calculate human(me) like process.

the above calculation took 16sec in core2duo, thats no way near to, 

https://defuse.ca/big-number-calculator.htm

i dont know if they use supercompuer