TITLE: Infinite product experimental mathematics question.
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: A while ago I threw the following at a numerical evaluator (in the present case I'm using wolfram alpha)
$\prod_{v=2}^{\infty} \sqrt[v(v-1)]{v} \approx 3.5174872559023696493997936\ldots$
Recently, for exploratory reasons only, I threw the following product at wolfram alpha
$\prod_{n=1}^{\infty} \sqrt[n]{1+\frac{1}{n}} \approx 3.5174872559023696493997936\ldots$
(I have cut the numbers listed above off where the value calculated by wolfram alpha begins to differ)
Are these products identical or is there some high precision fraud going on here?

REPLY [5 votes]: Aha, I get Gjerji's insight, and I should have seen it sooner, but I was stuck on dealing with series representations by logarithms. 
The second product looks like this:
$\sqrt[1]{\frac{2}{1}}\sqrt[2]{\frac{3}{2}}\sqrt[3]{\frac{4}{3}}\sqrt[4]{\frac{5}{4}}\ldots$, and it can be rewritten like this: $2^{1-\frac{1}{2}}3^{\frac{1}{3}-\frac{1}{4}}4^{\frac{1}{4}-\frac{1}{5}}5^{\frac{1}{5}-\frac{1}{6}}\ldots$, and then one can employ Gjerji's observation to convert the second into the first.