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I am going to take the easy way on this question because it has no context...you haven't given us any reason why you picked this particular large number. So 4 is 100 in the base 2 system. 4 to the 1st power (which I will display as 4^1) is just 100 (all these are base 2). 4^2 is 100x100=10000, 4^3=1000000, and you keep adding two zeros for each increase in an integer power. So in the base two system, 4^200 is 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0 or 1 followed by 400 zeros. 8 to the 200th would have 600 zeros. Can you see why? Thinking in the base 2 is not very hard, any computer can do it, and we all know how dumb they are. If you had a reason for asking this question that a binary answer will not answer, you can see if the next person to answer it is able to reason in the decimal system. David Winsemius
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