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07-20-16, 12:23 AM
On 25 June 2016, 09:58:06 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 403*2^3334410+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=121829) The prime is 1,003,716 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 172nd overall. The discovery was made by Roman Trunov (stream (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=301928)) of Russia using an Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G860 @ 3.00GHz with 6GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 2 hours 44 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 25 June 2016, 17:18:48 UTC, by Jens Riemann (gemini8 (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=434794)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 3 hours 44 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Jens is a member of the Rechenkraft.net (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=41) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3334410.pdf).
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