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06-23-15, 11:02 PM
On 10 May 2015, 02:13:21 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 195*2^3486379+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=119904) The prime is 1,049,507 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 109th overall. The discovery was made by Naoki Yoshioka (oevrtaker@biomaterial (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=386763)) of Japan using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2687W 0 @ 3.10GHz with 64GB RAM running Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise. This computer took about 1 hour and 32 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Naoki is a member of the Doshisha University (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=7764) team. The prime was verified on 10 May 2015, 10:12:42 UTC, by Scott Brown (Scott Brown (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=1178)) of Japan using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise. This computer took about 1 hour and 14 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Scott is a member of the Duke University (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=154) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3486379.pdf).
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