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Fix final dining philospher output to match actual program output.
danmactough Dec 26, 2015
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Clarify characterization of problem solution.
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Expand Up @@ -704,8 +704,10 @@ You’ll notice we can introduce a new binding to `table` here, and it will
shadow the old one. This is often used so that you don’t need to come up with
two unique names.

With this, our program works! Only two philosophers can eat at any one time,
and so you’ll get some output like this:
With this, our program works! No more than two philosophers can eat at any one
time, and so you’ll get some output like this (due to the arbitrary order of
execution of spawned threads, your output may be different -- and may be
different each time you run your program):

```text
Gilles Deleuze is eating.
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