#include<stdio.h>
	 
#define q 1999999973

long power(long x , long n){
	long buff;
	if(n == 0) 
		return 1;
	buff = power(x, n/2)%q;
	
	if(n%2)
		return ((x%q)*(buff*buff)%q)%q;
	else
		return (buff*buff)%q; 
}
int main(){
	long N, P;
	freopen("lgput.in","r",stdin);
	freopen("lgput.out", "w", stdout);
	scanf("%ld %ld",&N, &P);
	printf("%ld", power(N, P));
	return 0;
}