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02-26-16, 07:46 PM
On 24 February 2016, 12:04:12 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 189*2^3596375+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121287) The prime is 1,082,620 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 106th overall. The discovery was made by Hiroyuki Okazaki (zunewantan (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=277353)) of Japan using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1630 v3 @ 3.70GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. This computer took about 58 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Hiroyuki is a member of the Aggie The Pew (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2280) team. The prime was verified on 24 February 2016, 13:18:01 UTC, by user Shaman (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=127017) of the Czech Republic using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. This computer took about 2 hours 2 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Shaman is a member of the Czech National Team (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=46) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3596375.pdf).
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