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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:16 pm Post subject: PrimeGrid: News Megadigit Probable Prime Found |
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Congratulations to Ben Maloney (<a href="http://www.primegrid.com/show_user.php?userid=23985" rel="nofollow">paleseptember</a>) who discovered the megadigit probable prime 2^4583176+2131. At 1,379,674 decimal digits, this is the first known probable prime with over a million digits. It should soon appear as the new probable prime record at the website of Henri and Renaud Lifchitz, <a href="http://www.primenumbers.net/prptop/prptop.php" rel="nofollow">PRP Records: Probable Primes Top 10000</a>. Ben is participating in the project <b>"Five or Bust" - The Dual Sierpinski Problem</b>. This project is outside of PrimeGrid and can be located in the Mersenne forum. For additional information about this project, please see the <a href="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10754" rel="nofollow">Welcome to "Five or Bust!"</a> thread. There are only 2 remaining sequences. To help with PRP testing, see this <a href="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10755" rel="nofollow">thread</a>. To help with sieving, see this <a href="http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10762" rel="nofollow">thread</a>.
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