PrimeGrid And Another DIV Mega Prime!
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#1 PrimeGrid And Another DIV Mega Prime!
On 24 October 2020, 22:53:39 UTC, PrimeGrid's Fermat Divisor Search found the Mega Prime: 19*2^6833086+1 The prime is 2,056,966 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 94th overall. The discovery was made by Jiri Jaros (Venec) of the Czech Republic using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz with 8GB RAM, running Linux Ubuntu. This computer took about 7 hours, 27 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Jiri Jaros is a member of the Czech National Team team. For more details, please see the official announcement.
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