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by ted_dunning 454 days ago
I extended the search to all 2^n where n < 10^15

https://github.com/tdunning/EvenDigits

This uses much higher order sieves so that it runs about 32000 times faster than the naive algorithm and was able to search to this point on a single core. It is also possible to thread this algorithm relatively easily.