A Reader Wonders Whether Expiring Leases Are Being Renewed At The Margins Of The "Better" Bakken -- July 3, 2015

There are a couple of new posts over at the discussion group.

One reader asks:

Does anyone know if Oasis is renewing leases in northern Mountrail and southern Burke County close to Powers Lake, ND, in the Cottonwood Field? An existing lease in that area for that reader expires in August, 2015.

Many readers would be curious, not only about this area, but other areas on the margins of the best Bakken, whether leases are being renewed.

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The Pancake Problem

For the background to this next bit, please go to wiki.

Now that you know the background to this problem, the rest of this story, from The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh (author of Fermat's Enigma), p. 112:

Thus, given that you cannot perform a third of a flip, the number of flips required to order, smallest to largest, 20 pancakes is 1,668 or less. This result is famous, because it was published in a paper that was co-authored by William H. Gates and Christos H. Papdimitrious. William H. Gates is better known as Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, and this is thought to be the only only research paper that he has ever published.

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Proof That Horses Have An Infinite Number Of Legs

From the same source (Simon Singh, above), p. 88:

Q: Prove that every horse has an infinite number of legs.

A: Proof by intimidation: horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs and in front they have forelegs. This makes a total of six legs, but this is an odd number of legs for a horse. The only number that is both odd and even is infinity. Therefore horse have an infinite number of legs.