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05-30-2014, 01:10 PM
On 6 May 2014 13:40:30 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search, through PRPNet, found the Mega Prime: 93*2^3544744+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=117797)The prime is 1,067,077 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 69th overall.The discovery was made by Micha? Gasewicz (Genn (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=43504)) of Poland using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8GB RAM running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 39 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Micha? is a member of the BOINC@Poland (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2) team.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3544744.pdf).
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