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Problem 56: Considering natural numbers of the form, ab, where a, b < 100, what is the maximum digital sum? Digital sum, ie: 47 = 4+7=11

package runner;

import java.math.BigInteger;

class runner
{	
	public static void main (String[] args) throws java.lang.Exception
	{
		long time = System.currentTimeMillis();
		
		int lsum = 0;
		for(int a=2;a<100;a++){
			BigInteger b_a = new BigInteger(""+a);
			for(int b=2;b<100;b++){
				BigInteger pow = b_a.pow(b);
				String powStr = pow.toString();
				int sum = 0;
				for(int i=0;i