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12-26-11, 03:21 AM
On 25 Dec 2011 13:31:28 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Sophie Germain Prime Search found World Record Twin Primes: 3756801695685*2^666669±1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=103792)The twin primes are 200,700 digits long, eclipsing the previous record of 100355 digits. They will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 1st for twins. This is PrimeGrid's third record twin.The discovery was made by Timothy D. Winslow of the United States using an Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz with 8 GB RAM running Windows 7 Ultimate. This computer, using LLR, took 9 minutes and 21 seconds to complete the primality tests of both primes. Timothy 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 (coming soon).

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