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08-16-2016, 01:32 PM
On 25 July 2016, 05:31:32 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:479*2^3411975+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121945)The prime is 1,027,110 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 156th overall. The discovery was made by Matt Jurach (mattozan (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=90031)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820k CPU @ 3.30GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise. This computer took about 48 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Matt is a member of the Aggie The Pew (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2280) team.The prime was verified on 25 July 2016, 06:24:44 UTC by Randall Scalise (Randall J. Scalise (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=8634)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 21 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3411975.pdf).
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