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03-15-17, 12:19 PM
On 14 March 2017 09:23:13 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:1093*2^3378000+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123149)The prime is 1,016,883 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 206th overall. The discovery was made by Andreas Rohmann (Andreas Rohmann (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=295838)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4771 @ 3.50GHz with 32GB RAM, running MacOS. This computer took about 2 hours 28 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 14 March 2017 16:51:12 UTC by Wolfgang Schwieger (DeleteNull (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=2663)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz with 64GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional Edition. This computer took about 1 hour 30 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Wolfgang 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-3378000.pdf).
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