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unusual facts about Tokyo University



Machin-like formula

The 2002 record for digits of π, 1,241,100,000,000, was obtained by Yasumasa Kanada of Tokyo University.

Paper plane launched from space

However, the planes' developers, Taduo Toda (see paper plane world records) and fellow enthusiast Shinji Suzuki, an aeronautical engineer and professor at Tokyo University, postponed the attempt after acknowledging it would be all but impossible to track the planes during their week-long journey to Earth, assuming any of them survived the searing descent.

Ubiquitous Communicator

The Ubiquitous Communicator (UC) is a mobile computing device designed for the use in ubiquitous computing by Ken Sakamura, the creator of TRON and a leading Japanese computer scientist in Tokyo University.


see also

Junji Kunishige

After retiring in 2001, he was named professor emeritus of Tokyo University, and professor at Tsurumi University.