Re: PiL3: typos

[Fidelis Assis <fidelis.assis@...>]

2013/10/29 Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> 

"memoize" means to make a note of something you've just

figured out, so that next time you can just consult your note

instead of having to figure it out again.

 

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Michie decided to coin a new word for this procedure, maybe
because he thought it was quite a neat little idea. Using "memoize"
in a somewhat similar situation is a way of tipping one's hat to
the inventor.

Isn't that procedure the same as in tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions? It is as old as at least ancient Greeks. Hipparchos didn't know whom he should tip his hat to but he used to "memoise" trigonometric functions :)

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