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Using (6.6), the expansion for defined by (6.2) may be written as

where the coefficients are given by (6.7). Comparing this with the expansion (6.4) for , we see that the two stage implicit Runge-Kutta method will have order one if
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order two, if

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(6.9) |
and order three, if


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(6.10) |
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