The first step is to understand what it means when a number has an exponent. The “power” of a number indicates how many times the base would be multiplied by itself to reach the correct value.
The second step is to write the number in the base-exponent form, and lastly calculate what the final result would be. Consider the example of 2 to the power of 4: in exponent form that would be
So re-applying these steps to our particular problem, we first convert our word problem to a base-exponent form of:
To simplify this, all that is needed is to multiply it out:
24 x 24 x 24 x 24 x ... (for a total of 96 times) = 3164311315843157871640208717411248957549536123530281395264641492001654863259994922017208238512855880807779489795375104963628526206976
Therefore, 24 to the power of 96 is 3164311315843157871640208717411248957549536123530281395264641492001654863259994922017208238512855880807779489795375104963628526206976.