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02-22-2015, 03:30 PM
On 14 February 2015, 18:24:10 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 113*2^3437145+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=119330) The prime is 1,034,686 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 108th overall. The discovery was made by Evelyn Chew (Crackenback (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=299026)) of Australia using an Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G3220 @ 3.00GHz with 4GB RAM running Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise. This computer took about 3 hours 1 minute to complete the primality test using LLR. Evelyn is a member of the BOINC@AUSTRALIA (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=25) team. The prime was verified on 15 February 2015, 10:52:20 UTC, by Grzegorz Roman Granowski (For the Universe ( Apaszko-Kaszkiety) (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=56804)) of Poland using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz with 16GB RAM running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. This computer took about 7 hours and 45 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Grzegorz 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-3437145.pdf).
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