Re: dining philosopher's problem

Richard Heathfield wrote:
binayaj@xxxxxxxxx said:

I need to solve the dinining philosopher's problem , but with
modifications so that Only at a time , either even or odd
philosopher can eat...

All philosophers are odd.

Imprecise. All even philosophers are odd. :-)

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