The approximation of differential equation by difference equations defined on a given set of points (x/sub 1/) is an important area of numerical mathermatics. Classical analysis of these methods says that if the truncation error is proportional to ..delta../sup n/ (where ..delta.. = max (x/sub 1/ - x/sub 1-1/)), then the approximation error is also proportional to ..delta../sup n/. Recently, however, we have discovered that this is not necessarily the case for irregular grids; the approximation might be supraconvergent with convergence rate greater than n. We examine this anomaly by looking at periodic meshes.