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07-18-16, 11:33 PM
On 20 June 2016, 12:52:22 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:323*2^3482789+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121815)The prime is 1,048,427 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 143rd overall.The discovery was made by Scott Brown (Scott Brown (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=1178)) of the the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400S CPU @ 2.50GHz with 4GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise. This computer took about 2 hours 23 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).For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3482789.pdf).
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