FoundationMultiple choice
What is the global order of accuracy of the classical fourth-order Runge–Kutta method?
- AOrder one, like Euler’s method, since both use one step at a time
- B
- C globally, matching its local truncation error
- DIt has no fixed order; it adapts automatically
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