{{Short description|Japanese video game designer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{multiple issues| {{notability|Biographies|date=July 2018}} {{inline|date=July 2025}} {{expand Japanese|topic=bio|date=July 2025}} }} {{nihongo|'''Hiroyuki Gotō'''|後藤 裕之|Gotō Hiroyuki|born in Tokyo, Japan}} recited pi from memory to 42,195 decimal places at NHK Broadcasting Centre, Tokyo on 18 February 1995. This set the world record at the time, which was held for more than a decade until Lu Chao beat it in 2005.
He is a game designer at Namco. He is the creator of word puzzle video game ''Kotoba no Puzzle Moji Pittan'', which was released as an arcade game in 2001 and later become available for various console and portable gaming systems.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061107051738/http://pi-world-ranking-list.com/lists/memo/ Pi World ranking list] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070203145553/http://www.dengekionline.com/soft/recommend/mojipittan/index.htm Moji Pittan interview] (Japanese)
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