JuliaDiff / JuliaDiff/FiniteDifferences.jl

Meaning of order

Open
#35 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
Julia
Stars
318
Forks
32
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

Description

The order of a method currently refers to the number of grid points. This is different from what is conventional in the literature, where order refers to how the truncation error scales with the step size. It probably makes sense to adhere to that convention.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by locating the public methods that define or report method order, then review their documentation and tests to understand the current meaning. Done should mean that the order terminology consistently follows the conventional truncation-error definition.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
julia
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.