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06-29-14, 09:21 PM
On 10 June 2014 5:22:14 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search, through PRPNet, found the Mega Prime: 33*2^3570132+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=118003)The prime is 1,074,719 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 66th overall.The discovery was made by Fabrice Le Foulher (JackTheSkipper (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=251)) of France using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600k CPU @ 3.40GHz with 10GB RAM running Windows 7 Home Premium. This computer took about 1 hour 45 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Fabrice is a member of the L'Alliance Francophone (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=37) team.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3570132.pdf).
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