Those with triskaidekaphobia can rest at ease tonight!!! A generalized Woodall prime for base 13 has been discovered!!! The prime was found in PrimeGrid's PRPNet and is the largest known generalized Woodall prime: 563528*13563528-1The prime is 627,745 digits long and enters Chris Caldwell's The Largest Known Primes Database ranked 1st for generalized Woodall primes and 65th overall. It is the largest non-base 2/non-generalized Fermat prime ever found.The discovery was made by Lennart Vogel (lennart SM5YMT) of Sweden using an Intel Q6600 @ 2.4 GHz with 4 GB RAM. This computer took about 3 hours and 54 minutes to complete the probable prime test. It took just over 30 hours to prove primality.For more details, please see the official announcement.
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