Mathematical Proof
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The ranking system in Sherlock's mind was nice and well ordered, until one John Watson almost screwed it up.
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- Part 1 of Mathematical Proof
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“It’s one explanation of some of the facts, John,” said Sherlock, because that was the sort of thing that Sherlock said all the bloody time.
“Yeah, all right,” said John, “only he’s got a hole through his skull, an electric drill covered in blood by his head, and a note about power tools from somebody admitting to the murder stapled to his nose.”
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- Part 2 of Mathematical Proof
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“It’s actually two point nine.”
“What?”
“Meters. That you stay from me, all the time. Well—since you punched me, anyway.”
“Oh. I hadn’t really put that much thought into it.”
“How very homoscedastic of you.”Series
- Part 3 of Mathematical Proof
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Once again, Sherlock's out solving crimes
But it looks like this is one of those times:
He's on par with Anderson
In terms of salamanders and
Knowing more than that they slime.Series
- Part 4 of Mathematical Proof
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"Did you really think I was born knowing how to identify a zoologist by her fingernails and cutlery?"
"No, of course not." John considered turning away for the imminent lecture.
"I practiced," Sherlock reiterated instead. "Of course I didn’t always immediately know what to look for."
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- Part 5 of Mathematical Proof
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If there was one thing John was always sure to do when Sherlock got in one of his moods, it was to stay away.
Which was precisely why now, amidst a flurry of inspiration to do a little experiment of his own, John was coming down the stairs from his room and preparing to approach the sofa and do whatever else was necessary to get results.Series
- Part 6 of Mathematical Proof
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“Well, John, any techniques for error analysis you’ll have learned assume you’ve got normal data. You can’t run about analyzing just any data that way.”
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- Part 7 of Mathematical Proof
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“Honestly, John? ‘The Navel Treatment'?”
“You can call it whatever you want on your blog,” John glanced up from his laptop to Sherlock, who was watching him type about the case over his shoulder.
“I didn’t think you were really going to give it that title.”
“You knew I was going to, Sherlock. You know how I run my blog.”
“Yes: stupidly.”
“And,” John pointedly ignored this comment, “it’s not my fault you found the crucial evidence in the victim’s belly button. It was lint, Sherlock. I don’t exactly have a lot to work with.”
“You could try not titling your entries with terrible puns.”Series
- Part 8 of Mathematical Proof
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He and John fell in love eighteen years ago.
It fell apart quickly.
It fell apart suddenly.
It fell apart sixteen years ago.But they were still flatmates, and they still solved crimes, and nothing changed. Nothing changed sixteen years ago, just the details, just the important little details. Sherlock was no longer allowed to sleep in bed with John, or run his fingers through John’s hair or breathe on his collarbone or nip at his nose or sleep with his face buried in a discarded jumper or lay his head in John’s lap while they watched John’s action and sci-fi movies.
Everything changed fourteen years ago, though. Everything.
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- Part 9 of Mathematical Proof
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“Look at you,” Sherlock chuckled. John, of course, could not look at himself. Situate in front of mirror next time, Sherlock made a mental note. “Heart rate increasing. Back arched.” Not that John had much of a choice in that matter, either.
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- Part 10 of Mathematical Proof
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“I’m sorry,” John sighed. “That was…well. You didn’t exactly get the perfect flatmate either.” They didn’t talk about the shouts in the middle of the night, or of the broken dishes in the trash can the next morning after John came down for a glass of water with a shaky hand.
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- Part 11 of Mathematical Proof
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The last time he had seen Sherlock was three years ago—completely by accident. Sherlock hadn’t come to Mary’s funeral, but that was no surprise; John had seen him a few days afterward, but not since then, not until this time.
John, fourteen years after leaving Baker Street, looks back on his relationship with Sherlock, on his marriage, and on his unshakable loneliness.
Goes with Touching.Series
- Part 12 of Mathematical Proof
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It starts from Sherlock’s toes and from his hair.
“John,” Sherlock says, now lying on his back after a brief stint on his belly, and now it’s about his face. “John, check if anyone has posted anything on my website.”
John waits several seconds before responding, as if he’s been doing something very important and not daydreaming about writing a blog post detailing the various surfaces that lead to Sherlock’s hair being the messiest and the amount of tossing his head back against them that it took.
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- Part 13 of Mathematical Proof
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Couldn’t have a promotion with out something going wrong, Greg thought. He would give anything, anything (even his wife, but he already gave her up, didn’t he? Stupid, stupid), to be able to go home and not think about this case, but that wouldn’t happen.
Mycroft seeks out newly promoted DI Greg Lestrade in the hopes of finding some way to get Sherlock off his drug habit.
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- Part 14 of Mathematical Proof
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The Fixed Point Method of estimating roots involves employing an algorithm until the input is roughly equal to the output.
Sherlock and John's arguments work in much the same way.Series
- Part 15 of Mathematical Proof
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John is an extremely inconvenient variable in Sherlock's data analysis. He is also in hospital with a broken leg, but perhaps that's not surprising. What's more surprising is Sherlock's solution to both problems.
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- Part 16 of Mathematical Proof
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Blood, chocolate syrup, John in his pants on the floor, and a stupidly simple answer that was only stumbled upon because of sex.
Not a bad day for John, considering he got kidnapped (again) at lunch.Series
- Part 17 of Mathematical Proof
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While John and Sherlock were apart (apart for years, this time, years and years and years even with both in London, apart but for the occasional visits, ever less personal) they were not so different. Sherlock still solved crimes. He pretended to shoot holes in the wall. It was better this way.
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John pretended to shoot holes in the wall. Things hadn’t changed so much. He still solved cases with Sherlock, sometimes. He pretended to shoot holes in the wall. It was better this way.Series
- Part 18 of Mathematical Proof
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“Oh,” Sherlock said, tracing his fingers over John’s stomach. “Nothing at all like the data I had been testing.”
John rolled his eyes. “You know, Sherlock, I seriously doubt my body hair is terribly different from any other bloke’s.”
“Wouldn’t know,” Sherlock said.Goes with Fuzzy Measures.
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- Part 19 of Mathematical Proof
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Sherlock's after another serial killer, and so soon after the case with the cabbie, it's another Christmas. This one's ex-military, with strong moral principles -- and a particular type of victim. Sherlock can't seem to catch him -- or maybe it's just that he won't.
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- Part 20 of Mathematical Proof