On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Stewart Gordon wrote: > <snip> >> >> Walter, before you go and implement any of this, I must point out that >> it's spelt "memorization" and "memorize". (Or "memorisation" and "memorise" >> if you're British, but that's an aside.) > > Or maybe not... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization > > Still, I'm confused.... > > Stewart. >
Heh heh. Yeh, I remember I thought I'd found a major typo in the CLR algorithms tome when I first ran across that. But it's not a typo. It's "memo-ization" as in writing down a memo for yourself to remind you of the answer later. --bb
