{"problem":{"name":"Painting Balls with AtCoDeer","description":{"content":"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 ","description_type":"Markdown"},"platform":"AtCoder","limit":{"time_limit":2000,"memory_limit":262144},"difficulty":"None","is_remote":true,"is_sync":true,"sync_url":null,"sign":"abc046_b"},"statements":[{"statement_type":"Markdown","content":"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.\nFind the number of the possible ways to paint the balls.\n\n## Constraints\n\n*   $1≦N≦1000$\n*   $2≦K≦1000$\n*   The correct answer is at most $2^{31}-1$.\n\n## Input\n\nThe input is given from Standard Input in the following format:\n\n$N$ $K$\n\n[samples]","is_translate":false,"language":"English"}],"meta":{"iden":"abc046_b","tags":[],"sample_group":[["2 2","2\n\nWe 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 $0$."],["1 10","10\n\nSince there is only one ball, we can use any of the ten colors to paint it. Thus, the answer is ten."]],"created_at":"2026-03-03 11:01:14"}}