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11-05-16, 09:21 AM
On 4 November 2016, 06:03:37 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PPS Mega Prime Search project found the Mega Prime: 655*2^3327518+1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=122469) The prime is 1,001,686 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 Paul Mazumdar (pm107 (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=438856)) of the United Kingdom using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz with 16GB RAM, running Windows 10 Education Edition. This computer took about 1 hour 5 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Paul is a member of the University of Cambridge (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=388) team. The prime was verified on 4 November 2016, 14:34:01 UTC by Toshitaka Kumagai (Toshitaka Kumagai (https://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=195534)) of Japan using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2643 @ 3.30GHz with 256GB RAM, running Windows 10 Core Edition. This computer took about 1 hour 22 Minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement (https://www.primegrid.com/download/mega-3327518.pdf).
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