On 22 June 2024, 23:51:45 UTC, PrimeGrid's Generalized Fermat Prime Search found the Mega Prime: 9332124^524288+1 The prime is 3,654,278 digits long and will enter “The Largest Known Primes Database” ranked 12th for Generalized Fermat primes and 85th overall. The discovery was made by Detlef Lexut ([SG]KidDoesCrunch) of Germany using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 in an Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10940X CPU @ 3.30GHz with 64GB RAM, running Microsoft Windows 11 Professional x64 Edition. This computer took about 27 minutes to complete the probable prime (PRP) test using Genefer23. Detlef Lexut is a member of the SETI.Germany team. The PRP was confirmed prime on 23 June 2024 by an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X @ 3.4GHz with 128GB RAM, running Linux Mint 20.3. This computer took about 15 hours, 43 minutes to complete the primality test using LLR. For more details, please see the official announcement.

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