Problem:
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.

Solution in Rust (1.15.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

use std::fmt;
use std::io::stdin;
use std::io::BufRead;
use std::str;
use std::str::FromStr;

fn main() {
	let stdin = stdin();
	let mut scan = InputScanner::new(stdin.lock(),256);

	let n:usize = scan.next();
	let k:usize = scan.next();

	let r = if n == 1 {
		k
	} else {
		k * pow(k-1,n-1)
	};

	println!("{}",r);
}
fn pow(n:usize,e:usize) -> usize {
	if e > 1 {
		let a = pow(n,e/2);

		if e % 2 == 0 {
			a * a
		} else {
			a * a * n
		}
	} else {
		n
	}
}
struct InputScanner<R: BufRead> {
	reader: R,
	buf: Vec<u8>, // Should never be empty
	pos: usize,   // Should never be out of bounds as long as the input ends with '\n'
}
impl<R: BufRead> InputScanner<R> {
	fn new(reader: R, capacity: usize) -> Self {
		InputScanner {
			reader: reader,
			buf: Vec::with_capacity(capacity),
			pos: 0,
		}
	}

	#[inline]
	fn next<T: FromStr>(&mut self) -> T
	where
		T::Err: fmt::Debug,
	{
		if self.buf.is_empty() {
			self._read_next_line();
		}
		let mut start = None;
		loop {
			match (self.buf[self.pos], start.is_some()) {
				(b' ', true) | (b'\n', true) | (b'\r', true) => break,
				(_, true) | (b' ', false) => self.pos += 1,
				(b'\n', false) | (b'\r', false) => self._read_next_line(),
				(_, false) => start = Some(self.pos),
			}
		}
		let target = &self.buf[start.unwrap()..self.pos];
		unsafe { str::from_utf8_unchecked(target) }.parse().unwrap()
	}

	#[inline]
	fn _read_next_line(&mut self) {
		self.pos = 0;
		self.buf.clear();
		if self.reader.read_until(b'\n', &mut self.buf).unwrap() == 0 {
			panic!("Reached EOF");
		}
	}
}