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07-19-16, 10:00 PM
On 24 June 2016, 01:57:14 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 309*2^3577339+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121826) The prime is 1,076,889 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 119th overall. The discovery was made by Russell Mathers (Russ (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=319492)) of the United Kingdom using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This computer took about 1 hour 11 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 24 June 2016, 21:32:07 UTC, by Jakub Pavlis (JakuP (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=435193)) of the Czech Republic using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2310M CPU @ 2.10GHz with 4GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This computer took about 2 hours 55 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Jakub is a member of the Czech National Team (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=46). For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3577339.pdf).
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