Figures 2-4 illustrate the region of absolute stability for first-order Huen's method while Figures 5-7 exhibit the regions of absolute stability for second-order Huen's method. The stability region is inside the boundary of the dotted lines. Notice that the stability region is largest when the step size is half (w=1/2) and smaller when the step size is constant (w=1) , with the smallest stability region determined by a double step size (w=2) .
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