
\]</span> Thus the number of steps taken is rounded up to <span class="math inline">\(N^{*}_i = \left\lceil N_i \right\rceil =
\left\lceil 4.28... \right\rceil = 5\)</span> and the corrected
time-step then becomes <span class="math display">\[
\Delta t^{*}_{i} = \dfrac{3}{N^{*}_{i}} = \dfrac{3}{5} = 0.6
\]</span></p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> The exception to this rule is when the
remainder is less than <span class="math inline">\(\epsilon =
10^{-3}\)</span> i.e. if for instance <span class="math inline">