On 12 March 2017 18:28:04 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:861*2^3377601+1The prime is 1,016,763 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 205th overall. The discovery was made by Mike Kinney (Mektacular) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional Edition. This computer took about 53 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Mike is a member of the Crunching@EVGA team.The prime was verified on 12 March 2017 18:47:34 UTC by Stefan Geiger (Steve) of Austria using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional Edition. This computer took about 52 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Stefan is a member of the Aggie The Pew team.For more details, please see the official announcement.

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