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11-14-17, 08:32 AM
On 13 November 2017, 00:26:44 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:943*2^3442990+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=123990)The prime is 1,036,447 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 Joshua Charles Campbell (Warp Zero (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=930140)) of Canada using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz with 64GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 42 minutes to complete the primality test using multithreaded LLR. Joshua is a member of the Canada (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=328) team.The prime was verified on 13 November 2017, 18:22:32 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 940 CPU @ 2.93GHz with 24GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10. This computer took about 6 hour 76 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-3442990.pdf).
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