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memoization: a standalone construct

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storing the results of function calls so that later calls with the same arguments return the saved result instead of recomputing.

In programming languages, memoization refers to storing the results of function calls so that later calls with the same arguments return the saved result instead of recomputing. This meaning comes from Michie (1968) in Nature.[1]

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References

Michie, D. (1968). “Memo” Functions and Machine Learning. Nature, 218(5136), 19-22. https://doi.org/10.1038/218019a0

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