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:
63 x 63 x 63 x 63 x ... (for a total of 80 times) = 885612945589733849013384731305165961224565091000156518257102616402711557777982761809484916675376967482389287769605817267888348471376211316403201
Therefore, 63 to the power of 80 is 885612945589733849013384731305165961224565091000156518257102616402711557777982761809484916675376967482389287769605817267888348471376211316403201.