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10-30-17, 08:57 AM
On 27 October 2017, 22:42:37 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:625*2^3438572+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123964)The prime is 1,035,117 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 207th 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) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz with 32GB RAM, running Windows 10 Professional Edition. This computer took about 51 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 27 October 2017, 22:48:56 UTC by Lars Fricke (Lars Fricke (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=448872)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) E5-2620 v4 CPU @ 2.10GHz with 64GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 29 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3438572.pdf).
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