On 19 January 2017, 22:43:32 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:1183*2^3353058+1The prime is 1,009,375 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 201st overall. The discovery was made by Michele T. Mazzucato (nillium) of Italy using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Edition. This computer took about 2 hours 26 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 20 January 2017, 00:27:58 UTC by Akinori Kanno (teagin) of Japan using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional Edition. This computer took about 2 hours 49 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement.

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