Analysis
Numerical analysis is not only the design of numerical methods, but also their analysis. Three central concepts in this analysis are:
- convergence: whether the method approximates the solution,
- order: how well it approximates the solution, and
- stability: whether errors are damped out.
Read more about this topic: Numerical Methods For Ordinary Differential Equations
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