Avoid Prefix Palindromes

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Dynamic Programming, Algorithms, String, Medium, Introduction to Dynamic Programming 1
Problem

A special palindrome is a palindrome of size \(N \) which contains at most \(K \) distinct characters such that any prefix of size between \(2\) and \(N \) \(-1 \) is not a palindrome.

You need to count the number of special palindromes.

For example, abba is a special palindrome with N = 4 and K = 2 and ababa is not a special palindrome because aba is a palindrome and its a prefix of ababa.

If N = 3 and K = 3, possible special palindromes are aba, aca, bab, bcb, cac and cbc. So the answer will be 6.

Input format

A single line comprising two integers \(N\) and \(K\)

Output format

Print the answer to the modulo \(10^9 + 9 \).

Input Constraints

\(1 \le N \le 10^5\)

\(1 \le K \le 10^5 \)

 

Time Limit: 1
Memory Limit: 256
Source Limit:
Explanation

If we take our alphabet set as {a,b}, the two possible palindromes are aba and bab.

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