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)

fn main() {
    let v = read_vec::<u64>();
    let n = v[0];
    let k = v[1];
    let mut ans = 1;
    for i in 0..n {
        if i == 0 {
            ans *= k;
        } else {
            ans *= k - 1;
        }
    }
    println!("{}", ans);
}

#[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 yn(result: bool) {
    if result {
        println!("Yes");
    } else {
        println!("No");
    }
}