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Simple ring

A simple ring is like a toy car with just one ring or track that the car can ride on. It's called "simple" because it doesn't have any additional tracks or loops for the car to go through, just one continuous ring. Similarly, a simple ring in mathematics is a type of algebraic structure with just one operation that follows some special rules. Just like the toy car can only move along the single track, the elements or numbers in a simple ring can only undergo the one operation. But the cool thing about simple rings is that they have some very interesting properties that make them useful in studying other areas of math, science, and engineering.
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