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Collecting the shifted terms gives a second-order difference equation with coefficients $1-h/2$, $-(2+6h^2)$ and $1+h/2$. Substitute $y_n=r^n$ to obtain its characteristic equation of a linear recurrence:For real $h\ne 0,2$, the roots and general solution areIn the small-step regime, indeed for $0<h<2$, the polynomial is positive at $r=0$, negative at $r=1$ and positive for sufficiently large positive $r$. Thus $0<r_{-}<1<r_{+}$. The bounded solution of a second-order constant-coefficient recurrence discards the growing root, and $y_0=1$ fixes its remaining coefficient:The Taylor series establishes the displayed approximation to the root. Raising that approximation to the $n$th power is a leading approximation, rather than a uniform relative approximation for arbitrarily large $n$: its relative error is controlled when $n{h}^2$ is small. For completeness, the degenerate values give $y_n=A+Bn$ when $h=0$, and $y_n=C13^{-n}$ when $h=2$.