5 3
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 777 17
 4 3
 2 2
 100 4
 10 4
 999 2
 6 4
 1 2
 17 3
 1 4
 26 8
 91 5
 1 3
 1000 2
 20 3
 9 4
 123 5
 1000 1000
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 1000 4
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 5
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 80
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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

public class NewYearCandles implements Closeable {

    private InputReader in = new InputReader(System.in);
    private PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out), true);

    public void solve() {
        int n = in.ni(), b = in.ni();
        int result = 0;
        for (int i = 1; i <= n; i++) {
            if (i % b == 0) {
                n++;
            }
            result++;
        }

        out.println(result);
    }

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        in.close();
        out.close();
    }

    static class InputReader {
        public BufferedReader reader;
        public StringTokenizer tokenizer;

        public InputReader(InputStream stream) {
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream), 32768);
            tokenizer = null;
        }

        public String next() {
            while (tokenizer == null || !tokenizer.hasMoreTokens()) {
                try {
                    tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(reader.readLine());
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
                }
            }
            return tokenizer.nextToken();
        }

        public int ni() {
            return Integer.parseInt(next());
        }

        public long nl() {
            return Long.parseLong(next());
        }

        public void close() throws IOException {
            reader.close();
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new NewYearCandles().solve();
    }
}
