It is 282,589,933-1 having 24,862,048 digits. It is the 51st Mersenne Prime.
See https://www.mersenne.org/.
This is an enormous number. And each increase in the power of two means a number twice as big. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the last Mersenne Prime number found for a long, long time. Of course it was less than a year between discovery of the 50th and 51st mersennes, so who knows.
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