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#1 PrimeGrid Fermat Divisor Found!

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On 14 January 2021, 18:15:44 UTC, PrimeGrid's Fermat Divisor Search found the Mega Prime: 27*27963247+1 Divides F(7963245) The prime is 2,397,178 digits long and will enter Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 74th overall. This is ranked 2nd for prime Fermat divisors, and it is also ranked 2nd for “weighted” prime Fermat divisors. The discovery was made by Tom Greer (tng) of the United States using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz with 1GB RAM, running Linux Ubuntu. This computer took about 3 hours, 58 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR2. Tom Greer is a member of the Antarctic Crunchers team. For more details, please see the official announcement.
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