On 30 September 2016, 09:27:42 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:465*2^3536871+1The prime is 1,064,707 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 138th overall. The discovery was made by Kenneth Biscop (Kenneth) of Belgium using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz with 7GB RAM, running Windows 8.1. This computer took about 1 hour 33 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Kenneth is a member of the VUB/ULB team.The prime was verified on 30 September 2016 09:30:54 UTC, by Els Floren (Kurt Janssens) of Belgium using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 16GB RAM running Windows 8.1. This computer took about 1 hour 44 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement.

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