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This value is often multiplied by a “chicken factor” in a method developed by Erwin Fehlberg. A “velocity” parameter multiplies a ratio of two examples of these values to define the Courant number. Time goes to infinity while this value is fixed when evaluating systems for A-stability. A limit as this value approaches zero can be computed by Richardson extrapolation. Equations whose solutions are unstable, except when this value is extremely small, are called (*) “stiff.” A lowercase h denotes this value, which is (10[1])raised to the n-th power in the global error of an n-th order method. (-5[1])As this value asymptotically approaches zero, Euler's method (10[1])gets closer and closer to giving the exact answer. For 10 points, give this name for the range in the independent variable over which numerical integration is calculated. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: step size [accept step length or step time or time step; accept interval size or interval length or interval time; prompt on h or alpha; prompt on integration time before “integration”; prompt on time resolution or spatial resolution of numerical integration or a numerical method]
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