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8.2 PopulationGrowth:AFirstOrderODE 219 Fig. 8.7 Evolution ofa population computed with timestep 0.05 month Fig. 8.8 Evolution ofa population computed with timestep 2 months 8.2.4 UnderstandingtheForwardEulerMethod The good thing about the Forward Euler method is that it gives an understanding of what a differential equation is and a geometrical picture of how to construct the solution. The first idea is that we have already computed the solution up to some