Numerological prediction (bloomsday)

117 teams scored 4245 points on this task, for a maximum score of 90, an average score of 36 and a median score of 40.

Highlights

  1. T. Buzzi, Prato is the institute with the most points (200).
  2. Lombardia is the region with the most points (855).

Statement

Everybody knows that the world should end with the coming of doomsday, when all ills will be unleashed, throwing the earth in an hell of ice and fire. What is not nearly as known is that (given the right astrological conditions) a day of heavenly peace and joy should also come! Predicting this day, called bloomsday, is the ultimate quest of the most renowned numerologists, and Giorgio is no exception. After years of excruciating scientific research, he proved that bloomsday will come when the pattern of god will finally appear in the holy sequence. For this quest, Giorgio printed out the first few bazillion numbers of the "holy sequence", which is the infinite sequence of numbers: K * 1^E, K * 2^E, …, K * X^E, … where K and E are carefully chosen to maximise holiness. Even though the description of the "pattern of god" is too complex to fit into the margin of this page, Giorgio has already found it in the N-th digit of the printout! Thus...