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:
58 x 58 x 58 x 58 x ... (for a total of 100 times) = 220190894783801414664015064649422676515916193356206353016033153956542186593534902854798353582340781838020990885576712538723399815045776988996637622831341463623484227566358757376
Therefore, 58 to the power of 100 is 220190894783801414664015064649422676515916193356206353016033153956542186593534902854798353582340781838020990885576712538723399815045776988996637622831341463623484227566358757376.