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Hello, I am hoping somone can help me out here.
Is ther an easy way to figure this problem out without using trial and error?

Problem: What to the power of 10 is 1024?

Or 1024 is what to the tenth power?


Thank you in advance...

If your math (or computer science) book gives you a problem like this, the answer is always going to be an integer. The object of the book is to teach you math, not make your life horrible Start at 2 and work your way up.

(Hint: using this method, it took me about 5 seconds to find the answer)

My eleven year old son had this problem on one of his math papers. Im trying to teach him how do do it without starting at 2 and working up. Im a little rusty..
Thanx for the advise anway..

Richard

The answer is 2. 2 to the 10th power is one of the most important numbers to memorize, since it's the number of bytes in a kilobyte of data, or the number of kilobytes in a megabyte, or the number of megabytes in a gigabyte, etc. You'll run into it over and over again in computer science, but as far as I know, there's no easy way to mathematically calculate that if x^10 (or x**10, depending on how you like to represent it) = 1024, x = 2. All you can do is punch in likely numbers until you find it (it's the first number you test, anyway), or use a calculator.

ok, thank you very much for your help.

Have a super day..
Richard