PGS News status report of 2021-03-21

Update

(coped from the Mersenne Forum’s Prime Gap Search group as pertinent to Gapcoin)

2021-03-21, 08:38 Post to Mersenne Forum PSG:

Welcome to Craig Loizides!

Craig has been doing very small searches including an improvement to gap=1444 (70835497433946172330027 Merit 27.4) which is the smallest gap improved in 2+ years.

And they increased the record for gap=2894 (one of the 4 gaps with merit < 5 under 20k 1)

Other updates:

• 9500+ records submitted this year (compared with 13,044 last year)
• Of the 17 gaps needed for nice increments in #227, 4 have been found (2894, 36574, 49246, 49298)
• My #2221 or better range extends from 44582 to 47494
• Rob Smith found 2nd smallest missing gap (115694)