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04-05-2009, 03:59 AM
On 3 Apr 2009 15:40:01 UTC, PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search found another Mega Prime:3*2 5082306+1The prime is 1,529,928 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 15th overall. It is the 6th largest Proth prime found and the largest found Mega Prime using LLR.The discovery was made by Andy Brady (Andy Brady) of the United States using an Intel C2Q Q8200 @ 2.33GHz with 3GB RAM running Windows Vista. This computer took about 14 hours 7 minutes to complete the primality test. Andy is a member of the BOINCstats team.For more details, please see the official announcement. Decimal representation of the number is also available.http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/p1I-eqXnmRCc9p-Pf5haYTw4v6g/i (http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/p1I-eqXnmRCc9p-Pf5haYTw4v6g/a)

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