#include<cstdio>
using namespace std;

const long long MOD=1999999973;

long long fastPew(long long nr, long long p){
    long long aux=1;
    while(p){
        if(p%2)
            aux=(aux*nr)%MOD;
        nr=(nr*nr)%MOD;
        p/=2;
    }
    return aux%MOD;
}

int main(){
    freopen("lgput.in","r",stdin);
    freopen("lgput.out","w",stdout);
    long long n,p;
    scanf("%lld%lld", &n,  &p);
    printf("%lld", fastPew(n, p));
    return 0;
}