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08-25-16, 12:22 PM
On 23 August 2016, 01:58:59 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:453*23461688+1 (https://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122075)The prime is 1,042,075 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 153rd overall. The discovery was made by Randall Scalise (Randall J. Scalise (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=8634)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 11 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 23 August 2016, 11:32:10 UTC by Franz-Xaver Harvanek (XAVER (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=450130)) of Austria using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5960X CPU @ 3.00GHz with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate. This computer took about 1 hour 17 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3461688.pdf).
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