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03-15-17, 09:50 AM
On 12 March 2017 18:28:04 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 861*2^3377601+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123141) The prime is 1,016,763 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 205th overall. The discovery was made by Mike Kinney (Mektacular (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=441633)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 @ 3.20GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional Edition. This computer took about 53 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Mike is a member of the Crunching@EVGA (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2511) team. The prime was verified on 12 March 2017 18:47:34 UTC by Stefan Geiger (Steve (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=7216)) of Austria using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional Edition. This computer took about 52 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Stefan is a member of the Aggie The Pew (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2280) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3377601.pdf).
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