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Message 74360 - Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 4:53:30 UTC
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The PrimeGrid project has discovered a new prime number, 10223*231172165+1, which is the largest known Proth prime and the largest known non-Mersenne prime. Read about it in New Scientist and in PrimeGrid's announcement.
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