SR5 Mega Prime Find!
On 19 June 2022, 04:26:15 UTC, PrimeGrid?s Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 Problem project eliminated k=63838 by finding the mega prime: 63838*5^3887851-1The prime is 2,717,497 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's ?The Largest Known Primes Database? ranked 99th overall. 58 k?s now remain in the Riesel Base 5 problem.The discovery was made by Scott Lee (freestman) of China using an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 11 Professional x64 Edition. This computer took about 4 hours, 34 minutes to complete the prp test using LLR2. Scott is a member of the team, Chinese Dream.The prime was verified on 19 June 2022, 22:29 UTC, by an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-9100F CPU @ 3.60GHz with 16GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took about 11 hours and 57 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR2.For more details, please see the official announcement.

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