Who knows two hundred seventy-two?
Please cite/link your sources, if possible.
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Accept what I consider the "best" answer.
Move on to the next number.
In case this is the last entry before Rosh Hashanna: Shanna Tova!
Answer
Certain numbers in Hebrew are not written in the normal form. 15 would normally be written yud/hey, but because this spells a name of Hashem, it is customarily written tes/vav The same is true of tes/zayin, 16, instead of yud/vav.
The number 272 is also not written in the regular pattern, since the regular pattern would spell a word with a negative connotation. 272 would normally be spelled resh/ayin/bais which spells ra'av meaning "famine." Since the normal way to write this numbers spells a word with a negative connotation, it is written out of order.
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