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Yet, "here exist two deadlock states when all five philosophers are sitting at the table holding one fork each."
So, how can a philosopher be holding one fork?
: Oh, yes, I should have read the task. You are right - the task is wrong. Thinking about what the problem is trying to express: philosophers are allowed to pick up individual forks (and, in fact, can only pick up one fork at a time). They just can't eat anything unless they have two forks.
: Paraphrasing: given the reality that a philospher can only pick up one fork at a time, how can we emulate the ideal that philosophers always use two forks together. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 18:37, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
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