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07-15-16, 12:27 AM
On 23 June 2016, 09:03:40 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 381*2^3563676+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121825) The prime is 1,072,776 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 125th overall. The discovery was made by Milan F?ašek (RNDR. MF1 (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=364107)) of the Czech Republic using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz with 8GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Professional. This computer took about 1 hour 22 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Milan is a member of the Czech National Team (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=46). The prime was verified on 23 June 2016, 21:44:24 UTC, by Walter Darimont (Walter Darimont (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=99669)) of Belgium using an Intel(R) CPU @ 2.66GHz with 4GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 4 hours 26 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Walter is a member of the Aggie The Pew (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2280) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3563676.pdf).
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