#include<iostream>
#include<map>
#include<set>
#include<string>
#include<algorithm>
#include<cmath>
#include<vector>
#include<queue>
#include<stack>
#include<limits>
#include<sstream> 
#include<unordered_map>      

using namespace std;

typedef long long ll;
typedef unsigned long long ull;
typedef int itn;
typedef vector<int> vi;
typedef vector<ll> vl;

const int inf = numeric_limits<int>::max() >> 2;
const ll linf = numeric_limits<ll>::max() >> 2;
const ull ulinf = numeric_limits<ull>::max() >> 2;
const double pi = acos(-1);
const int dx[4]={1,0,-1,0};
const int dy[4]={0,1,0,-1};
const int dx8[8]={-1,0,1,-1,1,-1,0,1};
const int dy8[8]={-1,-1,-1,0,0,1,1,1};

#define p_queue(i) priority_queue<i> 
#define rp_queue(i) priority_queue<i, vector<i>, greater<i>> 
#define umap(i,j) unordered_map<i,j>
#define P(p) cout<<(p)<<endl
#define PS(p) cout<<(p)<< " "
#define IN cin >> 
#define rep(i,m,n) for(int i = (m); i < (int)(n); i++)
#define rrep(i,m,n) for(int i = (m-1); i >= (int)(n); i--)
#define inrep(n,a) for(int i = 0; i < (int)(n); i++)cin >> a[i];
#define mod(i) ((i)%(ll)(1e9 + 7))
#define divm(a,b) (mod(a * modpow((ll)b,(ll)(1e9+5))))
#define rsort(a,b,c) sort(a, b, greater<c>())
#define vsort(v) sort(v.begin(), v.end())
#define rvsort(v,c) sort(v.begin(), v.end(), greater<c>()) 
#define ft first
#define sd second
#define pb push_back
#define it insert
#define sz(x) ((int)(x).size())
#define lb(a,n,k) (lower_bound(a,a+n,k) - a) 
#define vlb(a,k)  (lower_bound(a.begin(),a.end(),k) - a.begin())
#define ub(a,n,k) (upper_bound(a,a+n,k) - a) 
#define vub(a,k)  (upper_bound(a.begin(),a.end(),k) - a.begin())
#define YES cout<<"YES"<< endl
#define NO cout<<"NO"<<endl
#define Yes cout<<"Yes"<<endl
#define No cout<<"No"<<endl  
#define yes cout<<"yes"<<endl
#define no cout<<"no"<<endl
#define ret return

ll modpow(ll i,ll j){ ll tmp=1; while(j){ if(j%2)tmp=mod(tmp*i);i=mod(i*i);j/=2;}return tmp;}
ll gcd(ll a,ll b){return b?gcd(b,a%b):a;}
ll lcm(ll a, ll b) { return a / gcd(a, b) * b; }

vector<string> split(const string &str, char sep){
    vector<string> v;
    stringstream ss(str);
    string buffer;
    while( getline(ss, buffer, sep) ) {
        v.push_back(buffer);
    }
    return v;
}

//ll ncr[100][100];
//ll nCr(int n, int r){if(n==r) ret ncr[n][r] = 1; if(r==0) ret ncr[n][r] = 1; if(r==1) ret ncr[n][r] = n;if(ncr[n][r]) ret ncr[n][r]; ret ncr[n][r] = nCr(n-1,r) + nCr(n-1,r-1);}

//ll npr[100][100]={};
//ll nPr(int n,int r){if(npr[n][r])ret npr[n][r];if(r==0)ret npr[n][r] = 1;if(r==1)ret npr[n][r] = n;ret npr[n][r] = n * nPr(n-1,r-1);}

//ll nHr(int n,int r){ret nCr(n+r-1,r);}

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


int main(){
    
    string s;
    ll n;
    cin >>s >> n;

    set<char> c;
    rep(i,0,sz(s))c.it(s[i]);
    if(sz(c) == 1){
	P(n*sz(s) / 2);
	ret 0;
	
    }
    ll cnt = 0;
    int t = 1;
    
    rep(i,1,sz(s)){
	if(s[i-1] == s[i]){
	    t++;
	}else{
	    cnt += t/2;
	    t = 1;
	}
    }
    cnt += t/2;
    t = 1;
	
    if(s[0] != s[sz(s)-1]){
	P(cnt * n);
	ret 0;
    }
	
    ll f = 1,r = 1;
    rep(i,0,sz(s)-1){
	if(s[i] == s[i+1])f++;
	else break;
    }
    rrep(i,sz(s)-1,0){
	if(s[i] == s[i+1])r++;
	else break;
    }

    //PS(cnt);PS(f);PS(r);
    P((cnt*n) - (n-1) * ((f/2) + (r/2) - ((f+r)/2))); 
    
    return  0;
}


Measured memory_bytes: 256