ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Linear equation over a ring

A linear equation over a ring is like a way of figuring out a problem. It's like solving for x. Let's say you want to know where x is on a number line. You can use a linear equation over a ring to figure this out. To do this, you need to look at a circle or a ring, and draw a line inside of it. The line represents x, and each number on the line is connected to a number on the outside of the circle. The numbers on the outside of the circle represent the answers to the linear equation, and the numbers on the inside are the values of x. You can then figure out where x goes on the line by seeing which number outside of the ring it matches.