Question

Five philosophers, Aristotle, Kant, Spinoza, Marx, and Russell (the tasks) spend their time thinking and eating spaghetti. They eat at a round table with five individual seats. For eating each philosopher needs two forks (the resources). There are five forks on the table, one left and one right of each seat. When a philosopher cannot grab both forks it sits and waits. Eating takes random time, then the philosopher puts the forks down and leaves the dining room. After spending some random time thinking about the nature of the universe, he again becomes hungry, and the circle repeats itself.

Answer 1

How do I design it so that no philosopher starves?

Answer 2

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Dining_philosophers.png

Answer 3

kill them all some other way, problem solved

Answer 4

What is the distribution for the random time?