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Tabulation vs Memoization - What's the difference?

tabulation | memoization |

As nouns the difference between tabulation and memoization

is that tabulation is the act or process of tabulating while memoization is a technique in which partial results are recorded (forming a memo) and then can be re-used later without having to recompute them.

tabulation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of tabulating.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • I’m using mathesis' — a universal science of '''measurement''' and '''order''' …
    And there is also '''taxinomia''' a principle of '''classification''' and ordered ''''''tabulation''''''.
    Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …
    Western reason had entered the '     age of judgement     .
  • A result of tabulating: a table, displaying data in compact form.
    • Here is a tabulation of baseless claims made in the last month.
  • (computing) A printout.

    • Related terms

    * tabulate * entabulate, entabulation

    memoization

    English

    Alternative forms

    * memoisation

    Noun

    (wikipedia memoization) (-)
  • (computer science) A technique in which partial results are recorded (forming a memo) and then can be re-used later without having to recompute them.