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by franciscop 1761 days ago
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.