What is a traveler from the Mayflower's absolute favorite kind of math problem?
Ply-division
Early settlers arriving on historic ships have names that easily lend themselves to clever linguistic twists. Plymouth provides the historical root for ply-division, which cleverly sounds like the historical colony while describing a mathematical equation.
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