The Dining Philosophers problem models a scenario in which a group of philosophers engage in the activities of eating, thinking, and sleeping. These philosophers are seated at a round table with an equal number of forks, and each philosopher requires two forks to eat. However, each pair of adjacent philosophers shares a fork. The primary challenge is to ensure that the philosophers can perform their activities without starving or blocking each other.

In my implementation, I represented each philosopher as a thread and each fork as a mutex. This setup allows philosophers to pick up the forks they need while locking them to ensure synchronization. Since they cannot all start simultaneously, I introduced a slight delay for the even-numbered philosophers at the beginning to manage concurrency.