#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void PrintDigit(int d) {
  printf("<%d>",d);
}


int main(void) {
  int n,b;

  printf("Please give me n and b: ");
  scanf("%d %d",&n,&b);
  printf("I got %d as n and %d as b\n",n,b);

  int negflag = 0;
  if ( n < 0 ) { negflag = 1; }
  int bp;
  bp = 1;
  if ( negflag ) {
    printf("-");
    n = n*-1;
  }
  while ( bp*b <= n ) { bp = b*bp; }
  int digit;
  while ( bp > 0 )  {
    digit = n/bp;
    PrintDigit(digit);
    n = n % bp;
    bp = bp/b;
  }
  printf("\n");

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}