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    Okay, here's my suggestion. Don't teach people that don't want to be taught math past exponents, quadratics and the beginnings of imaginary numbers. Most students here don't get to that, much less past it. And I certainly will never use what I am learning now ever again, except in classes of course.

    I'd rather be slightly unbalanced than have a chance to get a C in Honors pre-calc....
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    I don't know. I am assuming that your maths teacher knows that you can't do that sum on a standard calculator and is expecting you to use some maths to work out this answer. How about:

    2^10 = 1024

    so 2^10000 = 1024^1000
    = 1000^1000 x 1.024^1000
    = 10^3000 x 1.024^1000

    Now 1.024^1000 can be done on a normal calculator. It equals 2.00 x 10^10 to 3 sig. fig..

    Therefore 2^10000 = 2.00 x 10^3010 calculated on a normal calculator using a little ingenuity.
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    And now I feel the effects of not having taken a math class in the last five years. When I was taking AP Calc I was on top of the world; now the good Duke's post is complete gibberish to me.



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    2^10000= 10^(lg2*10000)= 10^3010.2999566398119521373889472449
    If your teacher doesn't like that answer

    pick up the decimals of lg2*10000=3010.x

    so you get 10^0.x = 1.9950631168807583848837421626836

    Thus you get 1.9950631168807583848837421626836*10^3010

    Haven't anyone here learned to count with logaritmes?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ironside
    Haven't anyone here learned to count with logaritmes?
    Ok I barely know how to even pronounce "logarithm" and you misspell it?


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