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:
37 x 37 x 37 x 37 x ... (for a total of 66 times) = 31718583808458581221123924886915417605031143688454052385578645029456485455940470591537270103514573010009
Therefore, 37 to the power of 66 is 31718583808458581221123924886915417605031143688454052385578645029456485455940470591537270103514573010009.