magnitude estimation definition
Report Abuse. Magnitude estimation is when you figure an estimate by taking the powers of 10 of the factors in the problem and just divide them. For this one, 54.3 is 5.43 * 10^1 and 5.6 is 5.6 * 10^0. So you estimate by doing 10^1 / 10^0 = 10^(1-0) = 10^1.