import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    int a = Integer.valueOf(sc.next());
    int b = Integer.valueOf(sc.next());

    if (a < b) {
        for (int i = 0; i < b; i++) {
            System.out.print(a);
        }
        System.out.println();
      } else {
        for (int i = 0; i < a; i++) {
            System.out.print(b);
        }
        System.out.println();
      }
  }
}
/tmp/hf-datasets-cache/medium/datasets/42704881117311-config-parquet-and-info-qiankunmu-Project_CodeNet-896c9d36/hub/datasets--qiankunmu--Project_CodeNet_Python800_and_Java250/snapshots/c899fde44a77ba1cc14973ed3de064e4ff3aadc7/Project_CodeNet_Java250.tar.gz