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10-09-17, 09:15 AM
On 5 October 2017, 08:47:45 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:911*2^3432643+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123925)The prime is 1,033,331 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 208th overall. The discovery was made by Jochen Beck (dh1saj (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=25532)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8GB RAM, running Windows 7 Professional Edition. This computer took about 1 hour 25 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Jochen is a member of the SETI.Germany (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=11) team.The prime was verified on 6 October 2017, 22:29:00 UTC by Georgios Magklaras (georgios (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=62981)) of Greece using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2650 v3 CPU @ 2.30GHz with 128GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 2 hours 28 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Georgios is a member of the Team Norway (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=226) team.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3432643.pdf).
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