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05-09-16, 10:57 AM
On 10 April 2016, 19:53:20 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:369*2^3365614+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121546)The prime is 1,013,154 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 155th overall.The discovery was made by Will Steinbach (bill1024 (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=292175)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz with 32GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 36 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Will is a member of the Crunching@EVGA (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2511) team.The prime was verified on 10 April 2016, 20:58:16 UTC, by Stephen Norton (spnorton (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=440147)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. This computer took about 2 hour 52 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Stephen is a member of the Alien Prime Cult (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=8037) team.For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3365614.pdf).
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