AMDave
03-02-2012, 03:15 PM
World Record Primorial prime
On 28 Feb 2012, PrimeGrid’s Primorial Prime Search, through PRPNet, has found a world record primorial prime: 1098133#-1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=105273)The prime is 476,311 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 1st for Primorial primes and 253rd overall.The discovery was made by James P. Burt (jpaul (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=2590)) of the Cayman Islands using an AMD Phenom 9750 Quad-Core @ 2.4GHz with 4 GB RAM running Windows 7 Professional x64. James is a member of the Aggie_The_Pew team (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2280).This is only the 20th known p#-1 Primorial prime and the 2nd discovered in the last 20 years. Official announcement to come.
More... (http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=4146)
On 28 Feb 2012, PrimeGrid’s Primorial Prime Search, through PRPNet, has found a world record primorial prime: 1098133#-1 (http://primes.utm.edu/primes/page.php?id=105273)The prime is 476,311 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database (http://primes.utm.edu/primes) ranked 1st for Primorial primes and 253rd overall.The discovery was made by James P. Burt (jpaul (http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=2590)) of the Cayman Islands using an AMD Phenom 9750 Quad-Core @ 2.4GHz with 4 GB RAM running Windows 7 Professional x64. James is a member of the Aggie_The_Pew team (http://www.primegrid.com/team_display.php?teamid=2280).This is only the 20th known p#-1 Primorial prime and the 2nd discovered in the last 20 years. Official announcement to come.
More... (http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=4146)