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= Solution

This is the <Backward Euler diffusion scheme> with a centered second spatial difference. Taylor expansion gives first order in time and second order in space:
$$
\tau=O(\Delta t)+O(\Delta x^2).
$$
With the parabolic scaling $\Delta t=\mu\Delta x^2$ and fixed $\mu$, the combined error is $O(\Delta x^2)$.

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