272
272 is a composite number, even, a calendar year.
Historical context — 272 AD
Calendar year
Year 272 (CCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Excerpt from Wikipedia (en) ↗ · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · English fallback Read the full article on Wikipedia →
Historical context — 272 BC
Calendar year
Year 272 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.
Excerpt from Wikipedia (en) ↗ · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 · English fallback Read the full article on Wikipedia →
Year facts
- Year type
-
Leap year
Divisible by 4 and not by 100; February has 29 days.
- Days in year
- 366
- ISO weeks
- 52
- Started on
-
Monday
January 1, 272
- Ended on
-
Tuesday
December 31, 272
- Friday the 13ths
-
2
2 Friday the 13ths this year.
- Decade
-
270s
270–279
- Century
-
3rd century
201–300
- Millennium
-
1st millennium
1–1000
- Years ago
-
1,754
1754 years before 2026.
In other calendars
- Hebrew
-
4032 / 4033 AM
Rosh Hashanah falls in September/October.
- Chinese
-
Year of the zodiac:Water zodiac:Dragon
Sexagenary cycle position 29 of 60. Lunar new year falls in late January / mid-February.
- Buddhist Era
-
815 BE
Counted from the parinirvana of the Buddha (Theravada / Thai / Sri Lankan convention).
- Ethiopian
-
264 / 265 ET
Year boundary at Enkutatash (September 11/12).
- Indian National (Saka)
-
194 / 193 Saka
Indian national calendar; year starts in March.
Properties
Primality
Prime factorization: 2 4 × 17
Divisors & multiples
Sums & aliquot sequence
Representations
- In words
- two hundred seventy-two
- Ordinal
- 272nd
- Roman numeral
- CCLXXII
- Binary
- 100010000
- Octal
- 420
- Hexadecimal
- 0x110
- Base64
- ARA=
- One's complement
- 65,263 (16-bit)
Historical numeral systems
- Babylonian (base 60)
- 𒁹𒁹𒁹𒁹 𒌋𒌋𒌋𒁹𒁹
- Egyptian hieroglyphic
- 𓍢𓍢𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓎆𓏺𓏺
- Greek (Milesian)
- σοβʹ
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋭·𝋬
- Chinese
- 二百七十二
- Chinese (financial)
- 貳佰柒拾貳
Digit at this position in famous constants
- π — Pi (π)
- Digit 272 = 4
- e — Euler's number (e)
- Digit 272 = 7
- φ — Golden ratio (φ)
- Digit 272 = 3
- √2 — Pythagoras's (√2)
- Digit 272 = 3
- ln 2 — Natural log of 2
- Digit 272 = 3
- γ — Euler-Mascheroni (γ)
- Digit 272 = 9
Also seen as
Goldbach's conjecture says every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For 272, here are decompositions:
- 3 + 269 = 272
- 31 + 241 = 272
- 43 + 229 = 272
- 61 + 211 = 272
- 73 + 199 = 272
- 79 + 193 = 272
- 109 + 163 = 272
UTF-8 encoding: C4 90 (2 bytes).
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.1.16.
- Address
- 0.0.1.16
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.1.16
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
The number 272 is an active NANP area code (North American Numbering Plan).
- Primary area
- Scranton
- Region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States
Most NANP area codes have multiple overlays in dense regions; the primary area listed is the historic/largest population center for this code.