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Advances in Numerical Analysis
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 513148, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/513148
Research Article

3-Point Block Methods for Direct Integration of General Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations

J. O. Ehigie,1 S. A. Okunuga,1 and A. B. Sofoluwe2

1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
2Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

Received 3 February 2011; Revised 18 April 2011; Accepted 26 May 2011

Academic Editor: István Faragó

Copyright © 2011 J. O. Ehigie et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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