On 10 April 2016, 19:53:20 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:369*2^3365614+1The prime is 1,013,154 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 155th overall.The discovery was made by Will Steinbach (bill1024) of the United States using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz with 32GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 36 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Will is a member of the Crunching@EVGA team.The prime was verified on 10 April 2016, 20:58:16 UTC, by Stephen Norton (spnorton) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. This computer took about 2 hour 52 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Stephen is a member of the Alien Prime Cult team.For more details, please see the official announcement.

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