#include<cstdio>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    freopen("lgput.in","r",stdin);
    freopen("lgput.out","w",stdout);
    long long int n=0,p=0,x=1,k=1999999973;
    scanf("%lld%lld",&n,&p);
    n=n%k;
    while(p)
    {
        if(p%2){x=x*n;p--;}
        else {n=n*n;p=p/2;}
        x=x%k;
        n=n%k;
    }
    printf("%lld",x);
    return 0;
}