Abstract
The lowest order term of the global discretization error of the numerical solution to a system of ordinary differential equations satisfies a well-known differential equation. It is observed that the integration of this differential equation and thus the estimation of the discretization error becomes almost trivial if it is an exact differential equation. It is shown that there exist both RK-methods and multistep methods, the error equation of which is exact.

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