12: If you decided to go the standard "e to ln" way, you should have done

The resulting expression is an indeterminate product, the classical approach is to change it into a ratio. It is probably best to "put under" the n.

The alternative calls for substitution m = n + 1, n = m − 1. Then one gets

Change it into the proper form algebraically and apply the elementary limit e^c.

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