Tangential at best, but why was the 'r' dropped from that term? Or why not call it caching? Why the weird "memo-ization"? It makes me think of a mass extinction event where everything is turned into a memo.
It's explained right in the linked Wikipedia page:
> The term "memoization" was coined by Donald Michie in 1968[3] and is derived from the Latin word "memorandum" ("to be remembered"), usually truncated as "memo" in American English, and thus carries the meaning of "turning [the results of] a function into something to be remembered". While "memoization" might be confused with "memorization" (because they are etymological cognates), "memoization" has a specialized meaning in computing.
The term memoization likely precedes the word caching (as related to computing, obviously weapon caches are far older). Memoization was coined in 1968. CPU caches only came about in the 80s as registers became significantly faster than main memory.
As wikipedia outlines, the r was dropped because of the memo. It's derived from the latin word memorandum that does contain the r, just like memory, but apparently it was more meant as an analogy to written memos.