PrimeGrid PRS Found!

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On 27 July 2024, 09:18:10 UTC, PrimeGrid's Primorial Prime Search found the Primorial Prime: 4328927#+1 The prime is 1,878,843 digits long and will enter “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 1st for Primorial primes and 373rd overall. The discovery was made by Kai Presler (Aperture_Science_Innovators) of Antarctica using an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8890 v4 @ 2.20GHz with 256GB RAM, running Linux Mint 21.1. This computer took about 6 hours, 53 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using PRST. Kai Presler is a member of the [H]ard|OCP team. The PRP was confirmed prime on 29 July 2024 by an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D @ 4.20GHz with 128GB RAM, running Debian 12.5. This computer took about 2 days, 3 hours, 38 minutes to complete the primality test using PGFW with 4 threads. For more details, please see the official announcement.

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