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02-10-17, 11:50 AM
On 9 February 2017 08:57:25 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:619*2^3362814+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122904)The prime is 1,012,311 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 196th overall. The discovery was made by Daniel Fru?y?ski (Daniel (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=123596)) of Poland using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 @ 2.60GHz with 32GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 49 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Daniel is a member of the BOINC@Poland (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2) team.The prime was verified on 9 February 2017, 09:18:53 UTC by Alen Kecic (Freezing (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=291144)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional Edition. This computer took about 56 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Alen is a member of the SETI.Germany (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=11) team.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3362814.pdf).
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