# DISTINCT POWERS

"""
Consider all integer combinations of ab for 2 ≤ a ≤ 5 and 2 ≤ b ≤ 5:

    2^2=4, 2^3=8, 2^4=16, 2^5=32
    3^2=9, 3^3=27, 3^4=81, 3^5=243
    4^2=16, 4^3=64, 4^4=256, 4^5=1024
    5^2=25, 5^3=125, 5^4=625, 5^5=3125
If they are then placed in numerical order, with any repeats removed,
we get the following sequence of 15 distinct terms:

    4, 8, 9, 16, 25, 27, 32, 64, 81, 125, 243, 256, 625, 1024, 3125

How many distinct terms are in the sequence generated by a^b
for 2 ≤ a ≤ 100 and 2 ≤ b ≤ 100?
"""

import itertools


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(__doc__)
    print("*" * 55)
    limit = 100
    combinations = itertools.product(range(2, limit + 1), repeat=2)
    print(len(set([i[0]**i[1] for i in combinations])))
