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02-20-17, 09:11 AM
On 17 February 2017 00:26:30 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 777*2^3367372+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122971) The prime is 1,013,683 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 202nd overall. The discovery was made by Lars Fricke (Lars Fricke (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=448872)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz with 64GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 34 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 17 February 2017, 17:55:08 UTC by Hans-Jürgen Bergelt (Hans-Jürgen Bergelt (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=139913)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition. This computer took about 1 hour 55 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Hans-Jürgen 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-3367372.pdf).
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