PrimeGrid: World Record Generalized Fermat Prime

On 29 Oct 2011 11:31:47 UTC, PrimeGrid’s PRPNet found the largest known Generalized Fermat Prime: 361658^262144+1+1 The mega prime is 1,457,075 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 1st for Generalized Fermat Primes and 24th overall. The discovery was made by Michel Johnson of Germany. (host spec and test information to come) NOTE: This is the first prime found by geneferCUDA! Michel is a member of the SETI.Germany team. More details to come.

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