[PrimeGrid] New 27 Mega Prime!

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[PrimeGrid] New 27 Mega Prime!

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On 01 February 2021 UTC, PrimeGrid’s 27121 Prime Search, through PRPNet found the mega prime: 27*2^8342438-1 The prime is 2,511,326 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 77th overall. The discovery was made by Andrew M. Farrow (Nortech) of Australia using an Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4170 CPU @ 3.70GHz with 4GB RAM, running Linux. This computer took just over 3 hours 19 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. The prime was verified on 01 February 2021, 15:42:26 UTC, by an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz with 8 GB RAM, running Linux Manjaro. This computer took just under 2 hours 19 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement.

Source: http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=9616
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