#abc046b. [abc046_b]Painting Balls with AtCoDeer
[abc046_b]Painting Balls with AtCoDeer
Problem Statement
There are balls placed in a row. AtCoDeer the deer is painting each of these in one of the colors of his paint cans. For aesthetic reasons, any two adjacent balls must be painted in different colors.
Find the number of the possible ways to paint the balls.
Constraints
- The correct answer is at most .
Input
The input is given from Standard Input in the following format:
Output
Print the number of the possible ways to paint the balls.
Sample Input 1
2 2
Sample Output 1
2
We will denote the colors by and . There are two possible ways: we can either paint the left ball in color and the right ball in color , or paint the left in color and the right in color .
Sample Input 2
1 10
Sample Output 2
10
Since there is only one ball, we can use any of the ten colors to paint it. Thus, the answer is ten.