Differential EquationsChallengeNumerical Methods: Euler to Runge–Kutta
Numerical Methods: Euler to Runge–Kutta · Challenge problem
When Euler's method is run in floating-point arithmetic, the total error at a fixed time is modelled by : truncation error grows with , accumulated round-off grows with the number of steps. With and , what is the smallest possible value of over ? Express your answer as a decimal.