How do you do this on a calculator 10 to the 24th power?

Answer 1

-- If your calculator has a key marked ' Xy ', then it's easy:

- Enter '10'.

- Touch ' Xy '.

- Enter ' 24 '.

- Touch ' = '.

- The display reads

1. 24Not too helpful, I'll admit. But it was you who specified the problem.

-- If your calculator doesn't have that key, then you have to do it the long way.

Enter ' 10 ' twenty four times, and touch the ' x ' multiply key after each one.

After the 24th time, the display reads

1. 24

... same answer as on the other calculator, which is encouraging.

-- Now let me ask you: Why do you think you need a calculator in order to

compute 1024 ? Can't you simply write down a ' 1 ' with 24 zeroes after it ?