The Rubber Band [SEP] series
The Rubber Band
The Rubber Band is the third Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. Prior to its publication in 1936 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., the novel was serialized in six issues of "The Saturday Evening Post" (February 29 – April 4, 1936). Appearing in one 1960 paperback edition titled "To Kill Again," "The Rubber Band" was also collected in the omnibus volume "Five of a Kind" (Viking 1961).
Plot introduction.
"The Rubber Band
a divergent series even though the limit of the th term as goes to infinity is zero. The divergence of the harmonic series is also the source of some apparent paradoxes. One example of these is the "worm on the rubber band". Suppose that a worm crawls along an infinitely-elastic one-meter rubber band at the same time as the rubber band is uniformly stretched. If the worm travels 1 centimeter per minute and the band stretches 1 meter per minute, will the worm ever reach the end of the