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11-03-16, 08:10 AM
On 2 November 2016, 16:08:03 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime:821*2^3327003+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122463)The prime is 1,001,531 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 196th 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 @ 3.50GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 1 hour 1 minute to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 2 November 2016, 17:04:43 UTC by Chris Hoefliger ({CurlY BracketS} (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=369)) of Switzerland using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 16GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This computer took about 1 hour 55 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement (http://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3327003.pdf).
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