“…It follows from the results of 131 (see also [12]) that if the method (2.1) applied to ordinary differential equations i ", A-stable, then it is also NP-stable. Therefore, the method (2.1) is NP-stable if the points by, j = 0, 1, ..,, p , are chosen td be, for example, the Lobatto points for [0, 11, since, as it is known the corresponding method for ordinary differentid equations is A-stable.…”