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10-10-16, 07:10 AM
On 5 October 2016, 19:10:08 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Generalized Fermat mega prime: 44049878^131072+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122320) The prime is 1,001,908 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (https://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 18th for Generalized Fermat primes and 191st overall. The discovery was made by Alexander Falk (Alexander Falk (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=444490)) of the United States using an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This GPU took about 14 minutes to probable prime (PRP) test with GeneferOCL4. Alexander is a member of The Knights Who Say Ni! (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=16) team. The PRP was confirmed prime by an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8GB RAM, running Windows 7 Professional. This computer took about 9 hours 33 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/GFN-44049878_131072.pdf).
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