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Credit: 20,744,180
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321 LLR Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (104,475)Cullen LLR Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (291,372)ESP LLR Bronze: Earned 10,000 credits (18,156)Generalized Cullen/Woodall LLR Bronze: Earned 10,000 credits (15,259)PPS LLR Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (107,362)PSP LLR Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (116,517)SoB LLR Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (151,232)SR5 LLR Bronze: Earned 10,000 credits (14,071)SGS LLR Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (100,082)TPS LLR (retired) Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (111,607)TRP LLR Jade: Earned 10,000,000 credits (15,467,375)Woodall LLR Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (101,463)321 Sieve (suspended) Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (201,501)Cullen/Woodall Sieve (suspended) Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (214,653)Generalized Cullen/Woodall Sieve Bronze: Earned 10,000 credits (14,200)PPS Sieve Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (282,191)Sierpinski (ESP/PSP/SoB) Sieve (suspended) Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (200,232)TRP Sieve (suspended) Ruby: Earned 2,000,000 credits (2,453,872)AP 26/27 Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (473,058)GFN Silver: Earned 100,000 credits (163,887)PSA Bronze: Earned 10,000 credits (97,541)
Message 23607 - Posted: 5 Apr 2009 | 7:20:00 UTC

On 3 Apr 2009 15:40:01 UTC, PrimeGrid's 321 Prime Search found another Mega Prime:<br />3*25082306+1<br />The prime is 1,529,928 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 15th overall. It is the 6th largest Proth prime found and the largest found Mega Prime using LLR. The discovery was made by Andy Brady (Andy Brady) of the United States using an Intel C2Q Q8200 @ 2.33GHz with 3GB RAM running Windows Vista. This computer took about 14 hours 7 minutes to complete the primality test. Andy is a member of the BOINCstats team. <br />For more details, please see the official announcement. Decimal representation of the number is also available.

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