The first step a math tutor would suggest 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:
23 x 23 x 23 x 23 x ... (for a total of 78 times) = 16397257218987799102481750240435915127423202162980618558306068975244248784823204354849013987593911694566769
Therefore, 23 to the power of 78 is 16397257218987799102481750240435915127423202162980618558306068975244248784823204354849013987593911694566769.