In what way does the square root of five illuminate our discussions of religious diversity?

Answer 1

It has no foreseeable end.

Answer 2

The square root of five is irrational and very likely transcendant over Base 10, that is to say, its full decimal expansion would contain a never-repeating string of numbers such that each digit is equally likely in any randomly selected position.

Since there are effectively an infinite number of facts, some true, some false, finite beings can never know the whole truth-state of the facts. They may look around in their region of the facts and come to some startling conclusions -- we might see the world from the middle of a string of 1's and thus assume that everything is 1's as well. Or we might see enough to recognize that we live in what seems to be an irrational and trancendant region, but we can never know that somewhere outside, there's a never-ending string of 1's.

Worse yet, because the sqrt(5) is probably transcendant, we can never use the previous few numbers to directly determine the next -- that is, each subset must stand alone and cannot usefully communicate its information to the rest of the expansion.

Answer 3

The square root of 5 is 2.236, i.e., Feb 23, 2006. This was the day "the government" decided to reclassify thousands of documents to remove them from the public eye:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/2006/02/022306.html

As a result, there are fewer distractions to keep us from discussing religious diversity.

Answer 4

Hmmm, I'm no mathmetician. But, it is comparable in that the majority can be split into two parts and there is still a little of other, left over. Like the two major religions we discuss are christianity and Islam the rest we don't talk about as much and would be the remainder.

Answer 5

My math sucks...are you trying to say that of the 5 largest religions in the world...they are all on the same path to God? They are more the same than different.

Answer 6

In that it is never ending. Even if we all united under the same religion, someone, somewhere would be the next Martin Luther.

I am interested in knowing your point of view on this one, please add comments later with your answer.

Answer 7

piraterachel gets the 10 points

Answer 8

I dropped math and took business around the same time I dropped religion. (is that what you mean?)

Answer 9

I expect the answer you will get eventually is that, as god created all the numbers, and square roots, the sq.rt. of 5 proves that god exists.

Answer 10

It shows that there are some pretty strange people out there....