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 Rust (1.42.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)

// -*- coding:utf-8-unix -*-

use std::cmp::*;
use std::collections::*;
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::prelude::*;
use std::io::*;
use std::vec;

const INF: i64 = 1223372036854775807;
const MEM_SIZE: usize = 202020;
// const MOD: i64 = 1000000007;
const MOD: i64 = 998244353;

use std::cmp::*;
use std::collections::*;
use std::io::stdin;
use std::io::stdout;
use std::io::Write;
#[allow(dead_code)]
fn read<T: std::str::FromStr>() -> T {
    let mut s = String::new();
    std::io::stdin().read_line(&mut s).ok();
    s.trim().parse().ok().unwrap()
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
fn read_vec<T: std::str::FromStr>() -> Vec<T> {
    read::<String>()
        .split_whitespace()
        .map(|e| e.parse().ok().unwrap())
        .collect()
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
fn read_vec2<T: std::str::FromStr>(n: u32) -> Vec<Vec<T>> {
    (0..n).map(|_| read_vec()).collect()
}

#[allow(dead_code)]
fn readii() -> (i64, i64) {
    let mut str = String::new();
    let _ = stdin().read_line(&mut str).unwrap();
    let mut iter = str.split_whitespace();
    (
        iter.next().unwrap().parse::<i64>().unwrap(),
        iter.next().unwrap().parse::<i64>().unwrap(),
    )
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
fn readuu() -> (usize, usize) {
    let mut str = String::new();
    let _ = stdin().read_line(&mut str).unwrap();
    let mut iter = str.split_whitespace();
    (
        iter.next().unwrap().parse::<usize>().unwrap(),
        iter.next().unwrap().parse::<usize>().unwrap(),
    )
}

#[allow(dead_code)]
fn readuuu() -> (usize, usize, usize) {
    let mut str = String::new();
    let _ = stdin().read_line(&mut str).unwrap();
    let mut iter = str.split_whitespace();
    (
        iter.next().unwrap().parse::<usize>().unwrap(),
        iter.next().unwrap().parse::<usize>().unwrap(),
        iter.next().unwrap().parse::<usize>().unwrap(),
    )
}

#[allow(unused_macros)]
macro_rules! debug {
    ($($e:expr),*) => {
        #[cfg(debug_assertions)]
        $({
            let (e, mut err) = (stringify!($e), std::io::stderr());
            writeln!(err, "{} = {:?}", e, $e).unwrap()
        })*
    };
}

macro_rules! mint {
    (a :expr ) => {
        Mint::new({ a })
    };
}
#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
pub struct Mint(i64);
impl Mint {
    fn new(x: i64) -> Self {
        Mint(x.rem_euclid(MOD))
    }
    fn pow(self, n: usize) -> Self {
        match n {
            0 => Mint::new(1),
            _ => {
                let mut a = self.pow(n >> 1);
                a *= a;
                if n & 1 == 1 {
                    a *= self;
                }
                a
            }
        }
    }
    fn inv(self) -> Self {
        self.pow((MOD - 2) as usize)
    }
}
impl std::ops::Neg for Mint {
    type Output = Mint;
    fn neg(self) -> Self::Output {
        Self::new(-self.0)
    }
}
impl std::ops::AddAssign<Mint> for Mint {
    fn add_assign(&mut self, rhs: Self) {
        self.0 += rhs.0;
        self.0 %= MOD;
    }
}
impl std::ops::AddAssign<i64> for Mint {
    fn add_assign(&mut self, rhs: i64) {
        *self += Mint::new(rhs);
    }
}
impl std::ops::AddAssign<usize> for Mint {
    fn add_assign(&mut self, rhs: usize) {
        *self += Mint::new(rhs as i64);
    }
}
impl<T> std::ops::Add<T> for Mint
where
    Mint: std::ops::AddAssign<T>,
{
    type Output = Self;
    fn add(self, other: T) -> Self {
        let mut res = self;
        res += other;
        res
    }
}
impl std::ops::SubAssign<Mint> for Mint {
    fn sub_assign(&mut self, rhs: Self) {
        self.0 -= rhs.0;
        if self.0 < 0 {
            self.0 += MOD;
        }
    }
}
impl std::ops::SubAssign<i64> for Mint {
    fn sub_assign(&mut self, rhs: i64) {
        *self -= Mint::new(rhs);
    }
}
impl std::ops::SubAssign<usize> for Mint {
    fn sub_assign(&mut self, rhs: usize) {
        *self -= Mint::new(rhs as i64);
    }
}
impl<T> std::ops::Sub<T> for Mint
where
    Mint: std::ops::SubAssign<T>,
{
    type Output = Self;
    fn sub(self, other: T) -> Self {
        let mut res = self;
        res -= other;
        res
    }
}
impl std::ops::MulAssign<Mint> for Mint {
    fn mul_assign(&mut self, rhs: Self) {
        self.0 *= rhs.0;
        self.0 %= MOD;
    }
}
impl std::ops::MulAssign<i64> for Mint {
    fn mul_assign(&mut self, rhs: i64) {
        *self *= Mint::new(rhs);
    }
}
impl std::ops::MulAssign<usize> for Mint {
    fn mul_assign(&mut self, rhs: usize) {
        *self *= Mint::new(rhs as i64);
    }
}
impl<T> std::ops::Mul<T> for Mint
where
    Mint: std::ops::MulAssign<T>,
{
    type Output = Self;
    fn mul(self, other: T) -> Self {
        let mut res = self;
        res *= other;
        res
    }
}
impl std::ops::DivAssign<Mint> for Mint {
    fn div_assign(&mut self, rhs: Self) {
        *self *= rhs.inv();
    }
}
impl std::ops::DivAssign<i64> for Mint {
    fn div_assign(&mut self, rhs: i64) {
        *self /= Mint::new(rhs);
    }
}
impl std::ops::DivAssign<usize> for Mint {
    fn div_assign(&mut self, rhs: usize) {
        *self /= Mint::new(rhs as i64);
    }
}
impl<T> std::ops::Div<T> for Mint
where
    Mint: std::ops::DivAssign<T>,
{
    type Output = Self;
    fn div(self, other: T) -> Self {
        let mut res = self;
        res /= other;
        res
    }
}
impl std::fmt::Display for Mint {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
        write!(f, "{}", self.0)
    }
}
impl std::ops::Deref for Mint {
    type Target = i64;
    fn deref(&self) -> &Self::Target {
        &self.0
    }
}
impl std::ops::DerefMut for Mint {
    fn deref_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Self::Target {
        &mut self.0
    }
}

#[allow(dead_code)]
pub fn gcd(a: u64, b: u64) -> u64 {
    if b == 0 {
        a
    } else {
        gcd(b, a % b)
    }
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
pub fn lcm(a: u64, b: u64) -> u64 {
    a / gcd(a, b) * b
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
/// (gcd, x, y)
pub fn extgcd(a: i64, b: i64) -> (i64, i64, i64) {
    if b == 0 {
        (a, 1, 0)
    } else {
        let (gcd, x, y) = extgcd(b, a % b);
        (gcd, y, x - (a / b) * y)
    }
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
/// x ^ n % m
pub fn mod_pow(x: u64, n: u64, m: u64) -> u64 {
    let mut res = 1;
    let mut x = x % m;
    let mut n = n;
    while n > 0 {
        if n & 1 == 1 {
            res = (res * x) % m;
        }
        x = (x * x) % m;
        n >>= 1;
    }
    res
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
pub fn mod_inverse(a: u64, m: u64) -> u64 {
    let (_, x, _) = extgcd(a as i64, m as i64);
    ((m as i64 + x) as u64 % m) % m
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
pub fn fact_table(len: usize, m: u64) -> Vec<u64> {
    let mut res = vec![1; len + 1];
    for i in 1..len + 1 {
        res[i] = (i as u64 * res[i - 1]) % m;
    }
    res
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
/// Factorial and Inverse factorial table
pub fn fact_inv_table(size: usize, m: u64) -> (Vec<u64>, Vec<u64>) {
    let mut fact = vec![1; size];
    let mut fact_inv = vec![1; size];
    for i in 2..size {
        fact[i] = fact[i - 1] * i as u64 % m;
        fact_inv[i] = m - ((m / i as u64) * fact_inv[(m % i as u64) as usize] % m);
    }
    for i in 1..size {
        fact_inv[i] = fact_inv[i - 1] * fact_inv[i] % m;
    }
    (fact, fact_inv)
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
/// (a mod p, e when n! = a p\^e)
pub fn mod_fact(n: u64, p: u64, fact: &[u64]) -> (u64, u64) {
    if n == 0 {
        (1, 0)
    } else {
        let (a, b) = mod_fact(n / p, p, fact);
        let pow = b + n / p;
        if n / p % 2 != 0 {
            (a * (p - fact[(n % p) as usize]) % p, pow)
        } else {
            (a * fact[(n % p) as usize] % p, pow)
        }
    }
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
/// C(n, k) % p
pub fn mod_comb(n: u64, k: u64, p: u64, fact: &[u64]) -> u64 {
    if (k == 0) {
        return 1;
    }

    if n < k {
        0
    } else {
        let (a1, e1) = mod_fact(n, p, fact);
        let (a2, e2) = mod_fact(k, p, fact);
        let (a3, e3) = mod_fact(n - k, p, fact);
        if e1 > e2 + e3 {
            0
        } else {
            a1 * mod_inverse(a2 * a3 % p, p) % p
        }
    }
}
#[allow(dead_code)]
/// H(n, k) % p
pub fn mod_comb_repetition(n: u64, k: u64, p: u64, fact: &[u64]) -> u64 {
    mod_comb(n - 1 + k, n - 1, p, fact)
}

fn solve() {
    let ft = fact_table(MEM_SIZE, MOD as u64);
    let (n, m, k) = readuuu();
    let mut res = Mint(0);
    for i in 0..k + 1 {
        let mut nn = n - i;
        let mut x = Mint((m - 1) as i64);
        x = x.pow(nn - 1);
        // println!("{} {} {}", Mint(99).pow(99), m - 1, nn - 1);
        x *= m;
        // println!(
        //     "{}",
        //     Mint(mod_comb((n - 1) as u64, i as u64, MOD as u64, &ft) as i64)
        // );
        x *= Mint(mod_comb((n - 1) as u64, i as u64, MOD as u64, &ft) as i64);
        res += x;
    }
    println!("{}", res);

    return;
}
fn main() {
    solve()
}