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10-08-16, 02:06 PM
On 8 October 2016, 05:09:38 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 415*2^3559614+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122339) The prime is 1,071,554 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 134th 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) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 26 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 8 October 2016, 06:43:05 UTC by Alexander Falk (Alexander Falk (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=444490)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Xeon(TM) X5680 CPU @ 3.33GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 2 hours 57 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Alexander is a member of The Knights Who Say Ni! (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=16) team. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3559614.pdf).
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