This is our 200th prime!
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[B]Riesel Prime Search [/B]
Active primes: [B]on current list: 200[/B]; rank by number 3
Total primes: ever on any list: 217
Production score: for current list 45.307 (normalized: 1165), total 45.3206; rank by score 10
Largest prime: 77*2^1467554-1 (441780 digits) via L145 on 2/9/2006 17:11:14 CDT
Most recent: 1222853775*2^249279-1 (75050 digits) via L157 on 2/11/2006 19:21:56 CDT
Entrance Rank: mean 2657.05 (minimum 45, maximum 4824)
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Congrats to Grobie, and everybody else who contributed. :cool:
True, we have 5 ranked 4950-5000 that will drop from Top-5000 soon, but I'm sure they will be replaced by new ones sooner! :smile:

Thanks, 200 primes since start :banana: :banana: :banana:

Choose your own k:
k=1222853775
This makes 131 primes from n=0 to 300k

1222853775 224960 (already reported)
1222853775 249279 (already reported)

All testing from 10k to 300k is complete. Sieving to 500k in progress.

From choose your own k:

317372055*2^252736-1 (76090 digits)

k=139
 

139*2^224947-1 (67718 digits)

69*2^613781-1 (184769 digits)
8331405*2^772375-1 (232515 digits)

:shock: nice series of big primes from you and Kosmaj! Congratulations :bow:

And big primes kept on coming ... :cool:

Congrats Larry!

[QUOTE=Kosmaj]This is our 200th prime![/QUOTE]

Congrats to all of RPS (inluding the back-fillers)!
You're storming presently!

402335175*2^362856-1 (109240 digits)

22932195*2^418667-1 (126039 digits)
2904473715*2^342828-1 (103211 digits)
1694614845*2^305693-1 (92032 digits)

:w00t:

[QUOTE=fatphil]Congrats to all of RPS (inluding the back-fillers)!
You're storming presently![/QUOTE]

Phil, thanks. We just had a few lucky days :cool: As for the number of primes the bottom limit to enter Top-5000 it's moving upward rapidly and one needs new primes all the time to stay afloat. :smile: