#40 What's a Perfect Power anyway?


A perfect power is a classification of positive integers:


In mathematics, a perfect power is a positive integer that can be expressed as an integer power of another positive integer. More formally, n is a perfect power if there exist natural numbers m > 1, and k > 1 such that mk = n.


Your task is to check wheter a given integer is a perfect power. If it is a perfect power, return a pair m and k with mk = n as a proof. Otherwise return Nothing, Nil, null, NULL, None or your language's equivalent.


Note: For a perfect power, there might be several pairs. For example 81 = 3^4 = 9^2, so (3,4) and (9,2) are valid solutions. However, the tests take care of this, so if a number is a perfect power, return any pair that proves it.


Examples

isPerfectPower(4) => new int[]{2,2}

isPerfectPower(5) => null

isPerfectPower(8) => new int[]{2,3}

isPerfectPower(9) => new int[]{3,2}


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