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06-26-17, 08:39 AM
On 20 June 2017, 17:28:20 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 953*2^3405729+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123570) The prime is 1,025,230 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 201st 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 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 14 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 24 June 2017 06:23:26 UTC, by Jon Goral ([KWSN]John Galt 007 (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=24753)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 10GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Core Edition. This computer took about 5 hours 54 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Jon is a member of The Knights Who Say Ni! (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=16) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3405729.pdf).
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