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Orders of Magnitude

Key Concepts — Orders of Magnitude

01

A Fermi estimate uses only powers of 10 to get an answer accurate to within a factor of 10.

02

log₁₀(A/B) gives the orders of magnitude between A and B.

03

Use rounding to nearest power of 10 — 2 becomes 10⁰, 5 becomes 10¹, etc.