100461: [AtCoder]ABC046 B - Painting Balls with AtCoDeer
Memory Limit:256 MB
Time Limit:2 S
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Description
Score : $200$ points
Problem Statement
There are $N$ balls placed in a row. AtCoDeer the deer is painting each of these in one of the $K$ 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
- $1≦N≦1000$
- $2≦K≦1000$
- The correct answer is at most $2^{31}-1$.
Input
The input is given from Standard Input in the following format:
$N$ $K$
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 $0$ and $1$. There are two possible ways: we can either paint the left ball in color $0$ and the right ball in color $1$, or paint the left in color $1$ and the right in color $0$.
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.