PPS MEGA Prime of the Month!
On 1 February 2015, 16:49:00 UTC, PrimeGrid’s Mega Prime Search found the Mega Prime:159*2^3425766+1The prime is 1,031,261 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 107th overall.The discovery was made by Evelyn Chew (Crackenback) of Australia using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 8GB RAM running Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise. This computer took about 1 hour 31 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Evelyn is a member of the BOINC@AUSTRALIA team.The prime was verified on 1 February 2015, 19:11:39 UTC, by Matt Jurach (mattozan) of the United States using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz with 16GB RAM running Microsoft Windows 8.1. This computer took about 6 hours and 9 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. Matt is a member of the Aggie The Pew team.For more details, please see the official announcement.

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