PrimeGrid DIV Mega Prime! (Belated Posting)

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#1 PrimeGrid DIV Mega Prime! (Belated Posting)

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On 1 March 2021, 02:47:51 UTC, PrimeGrid's Fermat Divisor Search found the Mega Prime: 25*2^8788628+1 The prime is 2,645,643 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 75th overall. The discovery was made by Tom Greer (tng) of the United States using an Authentic AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU @ 4.90GHz with 32GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 10 Professional. This computer took about 2 hours and 46 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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