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There are N blocks arranged in a row. Let us paint these blocks. We will consider two ways to paint the blocks different if and only if there is a block painted in different colors in those two ways. Find the number of ways to paint the blocks under the following conditions:
- For each block, use one of the M colors, Color 1 through Color M, to paint it. It is not mandatory to use all the colors.
- There may be at most K pairs of adjacent blocks that are painted in the same color. Since the count may be enormous, print it modulo 998244353.
-----Constraints-----
- All values in input are integers.
- 1 \leq N, M \leq 2 \times 10^5
- 0 \leq K \leq N - 1
-----Input----- Input is given from Standard Input in the following format: N M K
-----Output----- Print the answer.
-----Sample Input----- 3 2 1
-----Sample Output----- 6
The following ways to paint the blocks satisfy the conditions: 112, 121, 122, 211, 212, and 221. Here, digits represent the colors of the blocks.
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