Philsophers' Forks - Animated

Description

• Five philosophers sit around a table. Each one goes through a cycle of sleeping and eating.
  
  
• There is a fork between each two philosophers, so there are five works on the table.
  
  
• To eat, a philosopher has to grab the forks on both sides. If a fork has already been taken by the philosopher on the other side of the fork, the philosopher must wait until that fork is free.
  
  
• The philosophers reach for forks in no particular order, but once they reach out for a fork and have to wait, they don't change their mind, even if the other fork is available.
  
  
• After having finished eating, the philosopher puts down both forks and goes back to sleep.
  
  
• The times that they sleep and eat vary randomly around given values.

Watch the contention between the philosophers as they wake up, wait for forks, and eat.

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