Problem:
Score : 500 points

Problem Statement

There are N blocks arranged in a row. Let us paint these blocks.

We will consider two ways to paint the blocks different if and only if there is a block painted in different colors in those two ways.

Find the number of ways to paint the blocks under the following conditions:

For each block, use one of the M colors, Color 1 through Color M, to paint it. It is not mandatory to use all the colors.

There may be at most K pairs of adjacent blocks that are painted in the same color.

Since the count may be enormous, print it modulo 998244353.

Constraints

All values in input are integers.

1 \leq N, M \leq 2 \times 10^5

0 \leq K \leq N - 1

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N M K

Output

Print the answer.

Sample Input 1

3 2 1

Sample Output 1

6

The following ways to paint the blocks satisfy the conditions: 112, 121, 122, 211, 212, and 221. Here, digits represent the colors of the blocks.

Sample Input 2

100 100 0

Sample Output 2

73074801

Sample Input 3

60522 114575 7559

Sample Output 3

479519525

Solution in Java (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

/*****Author: Satyajeet Singh, Delhi Technological University************************************/
    import java.io.*;
    import java.util.*;
    import java.text.*; 
    import java.lang.*;
    import java.math.*;
public class Main{
/*********************************************Constants******************************************/
    static PrintWriter out=new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out));        
    static BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    static long mod=(long)1e9+7;
    static long mod1=998244353;
    static ArrayList<Integer> graph[];
    static int pptr=0,pptrmax=0;
    static String st[];
/*****************************************Solution Begins***************************************/
    static long factorial[],invFactorial[];
    static void fact(int n){
        factorial=new long[n+1];
        invFactorial=new long [n+1];
        factorial[0]=1l;
        invFactorial[0]=1l;
        for(int i=1;i<=n;i++){
            factorial[i]=(factorial[i-1]*i)%mod;
            invFactorial[i]=modulo(factorial[i],mod-2,mod);
        }
    }
    static long ncr(long n,long k){
        if(k>n)return 0l;
        long ans=0;
        if(n<mod){
            long aa=invFactorial[(int)(n-k)];
            long bb=invFactorial[(int)k];
            long cc=factorial[(int)n];
            ans=(aa*cc)%mod;
            ans=(ans*bb)%mod;
        }
        else{
            ArrayList<Long> K=new ArrayList<>();
            ArrayList<Long> N=new ArrayList<>();
            while(n>0){
                N.add(n%mod);
                n/=mod;
            }
            while(k>0){
                K.add(k%mod);
                k/=mod;
            }
            ans=1;
            for(int i=0;i<K.size();i++)
                ans=(ans*ncr(N.get(i),K.get(i)))%mod;
        }
        return ans;
    }
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
        mod=mod1;
        fact(500000);
        int n=pi();
        int m=pi();
        int k=pi();
        long ans=0;
        for(int i=0;i<=k;i++){
            long c=(m*modulo(m-1,n-1-i,mod))%mod;
            long v=ncr(n-1,n-1-i);
            c=(c*v)%mod;
            ans=(ans+c)%mod;
        }
        out.println(ans);
/****************************************Solution Ends**************************************************/
        out.flush();
        out.close();
    }
/****************************************Template Begins************************************************/
    static void nl() throws Exception{
        pptr=0;
        st=br.readLine().split(" ");
        pptrmax=st.length;
    }
    static void nls() throws Exception{
        pptr=0;
        st=br.readLine().split("");
        pptrmax=st.length;
    }
    static int pi() throws Exception{
        if(pptr==pptrmax)
            nl();
        return Integer.parseInt(st[pptr++]);
    }
    static long pl() throws Exception{
        if(pptr==pptrmax)
            nl();
        return Long.parseLong(st[pptr++]);
    }
    static double pd() throws Exception{
        if(pptr==pptrmax)
            nl();
        return Double.parseDouble(st[pptr++]);
    }
    static String ps() throws Exception{
        if(pptr==pptrmax)
            nl();
        return st[pptr++];
    }
/***************************************Precision Printing**********************************************/
    static void printPrecision(double d){
        DecimalFormat ft = new DecimalFormat("0.000000"); 
        out.print(ft.format(d));
    }
/**************************************Bit Manipulation**************************************************/
    static int countBit(long mask){
        int ans=0;
        while(mask!=0){
            mask&=(mask-1);
            ans++;
        }
        return ans;
    }
/******************************************Graph*********************************************************/
    static void Makegraph(int n){
        graph=new ArrayList[n];
        for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
            graph[i]=new ArrayList<>();
    }
    static void addEdge(int a,int b){
        graph[a].add(b);
    }
    // static void addEdge(int a,int b,int c){
    //     graph[a].add(new Pair(b,c));
    // }    
/*********************************************PAIR********************************************************/
    static class Pair{
        int u;
        int v;
        public Pair(int u, int v) {
            this.u = u;
            this.v = v;
        }
        public int hashCode() {
            int hu = (int) (u ^ (u >>> 32));
            int hv = (int) (v ^ (v >>> 32));
            return 31 * hu + hv;
        }
        public boolean equals(Object o) {
            Pair other = (Pair) o;
            return u == other.u && v == other.v;
        }
        public String toString() {
            return "[u=" + u + ", v=" + v + "]";
        }
    }
/******************************************Long Pair*******************************************************/
    static class Pairl{
        long u;
        long v;
        public Pairl(long u, long v) {
            this.u = u;
            this.v = v;
        }
        public int hashCode() {
            int hu = (int) (u ^ (u >>> 32));
            int hv = (int) (v ^ (v >>> 32));
            return 31 * hu + hv;
        }
        public boolean equals(Object o) {
            Pairl other = (Pairl) o;
            return u == other.u && v == other.v;
        }
        public String toString() {
            return "[u=" + u + ", v=" + v + "]";
        }
    }
/*****************************************DEBUG***********************************************************/
    public static void debug(Object... o){
        System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(o));
    }
/************************************MODULAR EXPONENTIATION***********************************************/
    static long modulo(long a,long b,long c){
        long x=1,y=a%c;
        while(b > 0){
            if(b%2 == 1)
                x=(x*y)%c;
            y = (y*y)%c;
            b = b>>1;
        }
        return  x%c;
    }
/********************************************GCD**********************************************************/
    static long gcd(long x, long y){
        if(x==0)
            return y;
        if(y==0)
            return x;
        long r=0, a, b;
        a = (x > y) ? x : y; 
        b = (x < y) ? x : y;
        r = b;
        while(a % b != 0){
            r = a % b;
            a = b;
            b = r;
        }
        return r;
    }
}