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05-22-16, 01:56 PM
On 9 May 2016, 13:07:05 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:303*2^3391977+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121647)The prime is 1,021,090 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 154th overall.The discovery was made by Andreas Mueller (Andreas (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=95319)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2130 @ 3.20GHz with 8GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise. This computer took about 2 hours 28 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR.The prime was verified on 12 May 2016, 16:24:32 UTC, by Stephane Guichard (stef71000 (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=9952)) of France using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This computer took about 2 hours 31 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Stephane 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-3391977.pdf).
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