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Euler method

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Also known as forward Euler method, Euler's method

an explicit, first-order method for numerically solving ordinary differential equations

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Encyclopedic overview

(Figure 1) Illustration of the Euler method. The unknown curve is in blue, and its polygonal approximation is in red.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Euler method” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.