I tried calculating this number for 16-bit images in Python (8^8^16), and the interpreter just froze. Go was pretty quick though: 3.940200619639448e+115
print(f"{16 ** (8*8):.4E}")
1.1579E+77
Python wanted to use a float to convert to exponential format but it overflowed. Need to use strings ;-)
n=(2**16)**(8*8); s=str(n); print(s[0] + '.' + s[1:6] + 'E+' + str(len(s) - 1))
1.79769E+308Secondly, that number is wrong anyway. The correct number is (2^16)^(8*8).