{"id":788,"date":"2023-05-06T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T13:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:38:36","slug":"the-newton-raphson-method-according-to-the-king-james-version-of-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/solving-equations\/the-newton-raphson-method-according-to-the-king-james-version-of-the-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Newton-Raphson method according to the King-James version of the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I’ve been experimenting with ChatGPT<\/a> quite a bit lately (let’s be honest, who hasn’t). And at some point, I had the idea to ask ChatGPT to explain the Newton-Raphson method<\/a> to me. But, as you have seen here on ComputingSkillset.com, I have quite some experience using this method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, I added a twist to the whole thing and asked ChatGPT to write the explanation in the style of the King-James version of the Holy Bible<\/a>. Since I found the result quite well-done, I want to share it with you here. I’ll start with the prompt I used and then put the response below. I added formatting for math formulae in post-production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Write a step-by-step instruction for the Newton-Raphson method, but in the style of the King James version of the bible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n (This is me again …) This is actually quite instructive. However, not all details are present in this entertaining piece of text. So, if you are interested in how the Netwon-Raphson method works<\/a>, how to find the intial guess for the Newton-Raphson method<\/a> \\(x_0\\), how to code the Newton-Raphson method in Python<\/a>, and even how to use the Newton-Raphson method to produce beautiful fractal images<\/a>, click on one of these links and read on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you like this sort of thing, i.e., fun versions of scientific explanations, then you might be interested to read one of the following as well. At least, once you are through them all, you should be able to explain the Newton-Raphson method to absolutely anybody<\/strong> …<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve been experimenting with ChatGPT quite a bit lately (let’s be honest, who hasn’t). And at some point, I had the idea to ask ChatGPT to explain the Newton-Raphson method<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computingskillset.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Prompt<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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And ChatGPT 4 spake, saying:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\\[x_1 = x_0 – f(x_0)\/f'(x_0)\\]<\/li>\n\n\n\n
\\[x_{i+1} = x_i – f(x_i)\/f'(x_i)\\]<\/li>\n\n\n\nEpilogue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
More Newton-Raphson Style Variations<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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