# Solving ODE using RK4

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solving-ode-using-rk4/109697
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** ode
**Created:** [February 4, 2024, 11:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solving-ode-using-rk4/109697 "2024-02-04T11:01:05Z")
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#### Post date: [February 5, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solving-ode-using-rk4/109697/6 "2024-02-05T12:32:32Z")

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Sorry for the slightly off-topic comment, but why? My memory from university days might be betraying me, but I kind of have the mental picture that RK4 was the “bread-and-butter” algorithm. Or maybe it was RK5? I cannot remember precisely. This was in a computational physics context.

EDIT: Is it related to this?

> [@Tsit5 - What is it?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/tsit5-what-is-it/88237):
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> I did some poking around – I think this is just a particular implementation of runga-kutta 4(5). Is this correct?

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> Many times a scientist is choosing a programming language or a software for a specific purpose. For the field of scientific computing, the methods for solving differential equations are one of the important areas. What I would like to do is take the...

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