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There is a prime number with 24,962 digits that is a product of two primes.

The prime number, named M77232917 × 2^12789183 + 1, was discovered in 2018 by a distributed computing project. It is one of the largest known prime numbers and was verified by multiple mathematicians and computers. This record-breaking prime number is a product of two much smaller prime numbers, demonstrating a unique mathematical property known as a "Sophie Germain prime."