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12-05-16, 08:17 AM
On 3 December 2016, 16:11:01 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 651*2^3337101+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122566) The prime is 1,004,571 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (https://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 192nd overall. The discovery was made by Konstantin Stanko (Pollux (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=152096)) of the Czech Republic using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. This computer took about 1 hour 8 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Konstantin is a member of the Czech National Team (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=46). The prime was verified on 3 December 2016, 16:24:31 UTC by Albert Symula (Albercik (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=470035)) of Poland using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600 @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This computer took about 57 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Albert 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 (https://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3337101.pdf).
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