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The first child is 2 years old
The second child is 2 years old
The product of 2×2 and the sum of 2+2 are the same
But them saying oh I get it fools me. Just because they have no clue then they know immediately because the other one does not know is crazy

No, (2,2) is wrong. In that case, this would have been the situation:
First mathematician: "Because I got 4 as the product, it's either 1*4 or 2*2, I can't decide. I DON'T KNOW."

Second mathematician: "I got 4 as addition, so it's either 1+3 or 2+2. But if it's 1+3, the first mathematician would got a prime number (1*3=3), and he would immediately announce he knows.

But he does not know. Therefore, I KNOW!"

But this is not what happened.

My brain is fried right now
What is the answer?

I let you think about it a bit more, and if you'd still like, I can give you the answer tomorrow.

Sure! About to go to bed, and planning picnic tomorrow. I will more than likely be here at the same time as now!

A dragon has two kids and gives a math question to a couple smart dudes. Nether of them know the answer, until they know neither of them knows the answer. That is the largest clue I am working with

The sum of their ages is the same as the product of their ages. The variables are now restricted to a select amount of numbers that their product and sum are the same.

However, there are still issues here. There are multiple variants to the sum equaling the product. If they get this wrong, then they both are eaten by the dragon. So the variants are again limited to even a smaller amount of numbers

Since the dragon has two children, I assume they are twins. However, this is still wrong, seeing that with the vast majority of numbers there are, the sum will always have more variants than the product

294753618underscore7valueof8.9.992silver/goldequivilant19?!
I have no idea

They are not necessarily twins - nothing suggests they are twins (although nothing suggests they are not twins either...)
And the sum of their ages are not necessarily the same as the product of their ages! The dragon not necessarily gave them the same number.

I admit it's not an easy puzzle!

But there is a perfectly logical reasoning that leads to a single unique solution.

I will show you later today.

Yay!
Given these hints, I may think a bit harder!
She has no children.

The logic? The fact neither of them know how to calculate the riddle and then know the answer just because they heard the other does not know the answer is the biggest hint.

Since neither know the answer, the dragon tried fooling the two to test their value. Were they trespassing to invade her privacy, or were they just simply walking through? Their value was tested by giving them a riddle that made no sense to either of them. I just got lost with my explanation

Nope! There is a perfectly valid solution, a pair of integers. There is no "tricky" answer like "you have no children" or "both of them are 0 years old" or similar.

Integers! How could I forget that? Wow

Uhm, that's not the answer. i still haven't told you what the numbers actually are.

Yeah, I kinda quit
I thought it over so many times. It is probably super simple. I tend to over complicate things. You can give the answer now!