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11-05-16, 07:00 AM
On 3 November 2016, 17:52:13 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 659*2^3327371+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122468) The prime is 1,001,742 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (https://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 196h overall. The discovery was made by Dejana Ristic (Dejana Ristic (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=106169)) of Germany using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v3 @ 3.40GHz with 8GB RAM, running Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. This computer took about 1 hour 1 minute to complete the primality test using LLR. Dejana is a member of the Rechenkraft.net (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=41) team. The prime was verified on 4 November 2016, 09:03:57 UTC by Steve King (steveking (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=448042)) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4010U CPU @ 1.70GHz with 12GB RAM, running Windows 10 Core Edition. This computer took about 4 hours to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement (https://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3327371.pdf).
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