Intuition

It is the rate at which a Numerical Method converges to the exact solution as step size approaches zero.

  • Order Accurate: Truncation Error decreases proportional to the decrease in the step size.
  • Order Accurate: Truncation Error decreases Quadratically i.e. if the step size decreases by half it’s original size, the error is a quarter of the previous error.

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