Free-DC
07-19-2016, 02:04 AM
On 22 June 2016, 00:53:21 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 345*2^3532957+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121819) The prime is 1,063,529 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 130th overall. The discovery was made by William de Thomas (wdethomas (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=435653)) of Puerto Rico using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2623 v3 @ 3.00GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This computer took about 1 hour 21 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. William is a member of the Puerto Rico Assisting Science (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=3688). For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3532957.pdf).
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