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10-25-16, 09:02 AM
On 24 October 2016, 17:17:12 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 791*2^3323995+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122411) The prime is 1,000,626 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (https://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 197th 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 8 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3323995.pdf).
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