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03-15-17, 12:19 PM
On 14 March 2017 14:01:17 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:621*2^3378148+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123150)The prime is 1,016,927 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 Randall Scalise (Randall J. Scalise (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=8634)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 2 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 14 March 2017 14:09:41 UTC by Lars Fricke (Lars Fricke (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=448872)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2660v3 @ 2.60GHz with 128GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 10 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Lars is a member of the Rechenkraft.net (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=41) team.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3378148.pdf).
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