PrimeGrid: World Record Prime Fermat Divisor

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Congratulations to Scott Brown (Scott Brown (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=2620)) of the United States, the discoverer of a World Record Prime Fermat Divisor: 9*2^2543551+1 Divides F2543548 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=100563).The prime is 765,687 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 1st for Prime Fermat Divisors (http://primes.utm.edu/top20/page.php?id=8) and 57th overall.This is PrimeGrid's 1st found prime Fermat divisor since 2009 and 4th overall. This is the 287th known divisor and the 4th found in 2011.For more details, please see the official announcement (coming soon).

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[trigggl]

Congrats Reuben!

[rgathright]

Congrats Reuben!

Hey! That's ME!!

The Scott Brown name threw me off!

AWESOME!!

:-bd:-bd

[Mumps]

Bummer. Too bad the name was right, but the linked profile was not.

Congrats to the real discoverer Scott Brown.

And better luck next time Reuben. Can't have you hogging all the kudos! :)

[trigggl]

nevermind, I'm confused.

[Dandasarge]

Thanks for having a super awesome profile that made them link to you anyways!