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The following paragraph is from an essay about the history of mathematics.

[1] Ancient civilizations, including the Babylonians and Mayans, used placeholder symbols to indicate the absence of a digit in a number. [2] However, these early systems did not treat the placeholder as an independent number with its own mathematical value. [3] That critical conceptual leap occurred in seventh-century India, when the mathematician Brahmagupta wrote the *Brahmasphutasiddhanta*. [4] He subsequently established formal rules for performing basic arithmetic operations using this new numerical value. [5] Consequently, merchants and scholars throughout the region began adopting the decimal system, which eventually spread to the Islamic world and Europe.

For the sake of logic and cohesion, where should the following sentence be placed in the paragraph?

'In this groundbreaking text, he defined zero not merely as a placeholder, but as a quantity that yielded null results when subtracted from itself.'

  1. A
    Before Sentence 3
  2. After Sentence 3Cevap
  3. C
    After Sentence 4
  4. D
    After Sentence 5

Cevap

After Sentence 3
Placing the sentence after Sentence 3 is correct because it provides immediate antecedents for the pronouns 'he' (referring to Brahmagupta) and 'this groundbreaking text' (referring to the *Brahmasphutasiddhanta*). Furthermore, it introduces the definition of zero immediately before Sentence 4, which describes the rules subsequently established for using 'this new numerical value.'

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1
Analyze the target sentence for pronoun and contextual clues.
The target sentence contains the pronouns 'he' and 'this groundbreaking text.'
These pronouns require singular, clear antecedents (a person and a document) to be introduced in the preceding sentence.
2
Identify potential antecedents within the paragraph.
Sentence 3 introduces the mathematician Brahmagupta ('he') and the *Brahmasphutasiddhanta* ('this groundbreaking text').
This establishes that the target sentence must be placed after Sentence 3 to avoid pronoun antecedent errors.
3
Evaluate chronological and transitional flow with Sentence 4.
Sentence 4 states that he 'subsequently established formal rules... using this new numerical value.'
The word 'subsequently' and the phrase 'this new numerical value' indicate that the definition of the value (zero) in the target sentence must precede the creation of rules in Sentence 4.

Anahtar Kavram

Identifying pronoun antecedents and maintaining logical and chronological sequence in paragraph construction.
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Sentence Reordering and Placement

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