Re: Some interesting criticisms of rails

On Sat, September 17, 2005 4:15 pm, Randy Kramer said:
> On Saturday 17 September 2005 05:51 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> First of all it's five philosophers (i.e. as far as I remeber it's
>> important that the number of resource aquisitors is odd).
[snip]
> Just replying for "fun", iirc, when I went to school it didn't make any
> difference whether the number was odd or even--there was one fork for each
> philosopher but he could only eat if he had two forks. (Sounds odd, now.)

When I first learned of the Dining Philosophers, they used chopsticks so
it made sense that they would need two in order to eat.

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Jason Voegele
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remains unaltered no matter how life's externals may be transformed
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