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 98 times) = 1013065324433836171511818326096474890383898005918563696288002277756507034036354527929615978746851512277392062160962106733983191180520452956027069051297354415786421338721071661056
Therefore, 64 to the power of 98 is 1013065324433836171511818326096474890383898005918563696288002277756507034036354527929615978746851512277392062160962106733983191180520452956027069051297354415786421338721071661056.