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:
64 x 64 x 64 x 64 x ... (for a total of 85 times) = 3351951982485649274893506249551461531869841455148098344430890360930441007518386744200468574541725856922507964546621512713438470702986642486608412251521024
Therefore, 64 to the power of 85 is 3351951982485649274893506249551461531869841455148098344430890360930441007518386744200468574541725856922507964546621512713438470702986642486608412251521024.