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:
96 x 96 x 96 x 96 x ... (for a total of 56 times) = 1016691166502219875484262785145123219309718218383788100451305617204078712916109529436738743922640744079683485696
Therefore, 96 to the power of 56 is 1016691166502219875484262785145123219309718218383788100451305617204078712916109529436738743922640744079683485696.