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10-18-17, 04:22 PM
On 17 October 2017, 13:48:48 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 1147*2^3435970+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123953) The prime is 1,034,334 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 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 6 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 17 October 2017, 14:57:02 UTC by Amy Chambers (Buckeye74 (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=3404)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Core Edition. This computer took about 1 hour 13 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Amy is a member of the Sigma Omicron Chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=446) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3435970.pdf).
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