#include<bits/stdc++.h>
typedef double          D;
typedef long long int   LL;
typedef long double     LD;
#define ll              long long int
#define OR              ||
#define AND             &&
#define nl              '\n'
#define S               string
#define inf             INT_MAX
#define SQR(a)          (a) * (a)
#define pb              push_back
#define GCD(a, b)       __gcd(a, b)
#define MOD             1000000007
#define PI              2.0*acos(0.0)
#define COSI(x)         acos(x)
#define LCM(a, b)       (a * b) / GCD(a, b)
#define mem(a,b)        memset(a,b,sizeof(a))
#define srtv(v)         sort(v.begin(),v.end())
#define T               int t; cin>>t; while(t--)
#define Rep(i,a,b)      for(int i = a; i <= b; i++)
#define rep(i,a,b)      for(int i = a; i >= b; i--)
#define boost		    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);cin.tie(NULL);cout.tie(NULL)
#define inout           freopen("input.txt","r",stdin);freopen("output.txt","w",stdout)

#define si(x)           scanf("%d",&x)
#define pi(x)           printf("%d",x)
#define ss(str)         scanf("%s",str)
#define pl(x)           printf("%lld",x)
#define sl(x)           scanf("%lld",&x)
#define sii(x,y)        scanf("%d %d",&x,&y)
#define sll(x,y)        scanf("%lld %lld",&x,&y)
#define siii(x,y,z)     scanf("%d %d %d",&x,&y,&z)
#define slll(x,y,z)     scanf("%lld %lld %lld",&x,&y,&z)
#define M 10005

using namespace std;

//===========================================================

int fact(int n){
    if(n==0)
        return 1;
    else
        return n*fact(n-1);
}

//===========================================================

void divisor(int n){
    vector<LL>a(n+1);

    for(int i=1; i<=n; i++){
        for(int j=i; j<=n; j +=i){
            a[j]++;
        }
        cout<<a[i]<<" ";
    }
}

//===========================================================

void divisor2(int n){
    int cnt=0;
    for(int i=1; i<=sqrt(n); i++){
        if(n%i==0) cnt++;
        if(n/i != i) cnt++;
    }
    cout<<cnt;
}

//===========================================================

void isPrime_sieve(int n){
    bool marked[M];

    memset(marked,true,sizeof(marked));

    for(int i=2; i*i<=n; i++){
        if(marked[i]==true){ //isPrime number
            for(int j=i*i; j<=n; j +=i){
                marked[j]=false;
            }
        }
    }

    for(int i=2; i<=n; i++){
        if(marked[i]){
            cout<<i<<" ";
        }
    }
}

//===========================================================

bool isPrime(ll n){

    if(n == 2 || n == 3){
        return true;
    }
    if(n < 2 || n % 2 == 0){
        return false;
    }

    for(ll i=3; i <= sqrt(n);i +=2){
        if(n % i == 0){
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
}

//===========================================================

void move_brackets(int n,string s){
    int op=0,len=0;
        for(int i=0; i<n; i++){
            if(s[i]=='('){
                op++;
            }
            else{
                if(op){
                    op--;
                    len +=2;
                }
            }
        }
        cout<<(n-len)/2<<nl;
}

//===========================================================

ll DigitSum(ll num){

    ll sum{ 0 };

    while(num != 0){
        sum += (num % 10);
        num /= 10;
    }

    return sum;
}

//===========================================================

const LL mx=1e9+123;


int main(void){
  // boost;

    ll t,b,r,d,n,m,mx,mi,cnt=0,f=0,sum=0;
        cin>>n>>m;

        mx=max(n,m);
        mi=min(n,m);

        for(int i=1; i<=mx; i++){
            cout<<mi;
        }
        cout<<nl;
}


Measured memory_bytes: 3628