Simple and Clean (Tau Mix) - Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories II

"Simple and Clean (Tau Mix) - Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories II" is a high quality rip of the Tau mix of "Simple and Clean" from Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories II.

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The rip consists of a person reciting the Wikipedia article for the Greek letter Tau, in reference to the version of the rip. This reading is done sloppily: the person stutters and slurs their speech, mispronounces words and frequently stops to add commentary of their own. In keeping with Kingdom Hearts rip tradition, a significant amount of reverb is applied to the audio.

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Simple and Clean "Taw" Mix. "Taw". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This article is about the letter of the Greek alphabet. For other uses, see "Taw" (disambaguation-- dimbisu-- disim-- disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Tao or the Latin letter T.

"Taw" (uppercase "Taw", lowercase "taw"; Greek: "Taw" [taf]) is the 19th-- oh, it's pronounced taf?... [chuckling] is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300.

The name in English is pronounced... that's not a good pronunciation guide. ...but in modern Greek it is taf. This is because the pronunciation of the combination-- combination of Greek letters "AU"... or wait, no, that's-- that's alpha upsilon... has changed from ancient to modern times to one of the-- thr- to the-- [sigh] from one of [au] to either [av] or [af], depending on what follows (see Greek orth-- ortha-- orth-- orthography?).

Tau was derived from the Phoenician letter taw, which just looks like an X. Letters that arose from tau include Roman T and Cyrillic "Tee"? Or "Teh", or?

The letter occupies the Unicode slots U+03C4 (lowercase) and U+03A4 (uppercase). In HTML, they can be produced with named entities (&tau; and &Tau;, or I guess I should be saying &"taf";, huh?), decimal references (&#964; and &#932;), or hexadecimal references (&#x3C4; and &-- hashtag-- or, no, tag, wait, pound symbol-- x3-- wait, is this like, gonna be like tau... okay. ...x3A4;).

Contents
 * Modern usage
 * Biology
 * Mathematics
 * Physics
 * Symbolism
 * Character encodings
 * Notes
 * References

Modern usage See also: Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering (tau)

The lower-case letter τ is used as a symbol for:
 * Specific tax amount

Biology
 * The expressed period of the freerunning rhythm of an animal, i.e., the length of the daily cycle of an animal when kept in constant light or constant darkness
 * The dose interval in pharmacokinetics
 * The core variable in the tau theory
 * Tau in biochemistry, a protein associated with microtubules and implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, some forms of fronto-- frontotemporal lober de-- lobar degeneration, and chron-- and chronic traumatic encephalopathy

Mathematics
 * Divisor function in number theory, also denoted d or... [gives up trying to pronounce "σ0" entirely]
 * Golden ratio (1.618...), although φ is more common
 * Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient in statistics
 * Stopping time in sto... cha... stic... stochastic processes.
 * Tau, a circle constant equal to 2π (6.28318... ellipses...)
 * Tau functions, several
 * Torsion of a curve in differential geometry
 * Translation in Euclidean geometry (although the Latin letter T is used more often)

Physics
 * Proper time in relativity
 * Shear stress in continuum mechanics
 * The lifetime of a spontaneous emission process
 * Tau, an elementary particle in particle physics
 * Tau in astronomy is a measure of optical death-- depth, or how much sunlight cannot penetrate the atmosphere. I am losing it. Um...
 * In the physical sciences, tau is sometimes used as a time variable, to avoid confusing tau as temperature... or "T"? Or... okay.
 * The time constant (also relaxation time) of any system, such as an RC circuit
 * Torque, the rotational force in mechanics
 * The symbol for tortuosity in hydrogeology

Symbolism "Men weep, and bewail their lot, and curse Cadmus... uh, I don't wanna read this... [chuckling] ...Cadmus with many curses for introducing Tau into the family of letters; they say it was his body that tyrants took for a model, his shape that they imitated, when they set up structures on which men are crucified. Stauros (cross) the vile engine is called, and it derives its vile name from him. Now, with all these crimes upon him, does he not deserve death, nay, many deaths? For my part I know none bad enough but that supplied by his own shape — that shape which he gave to the gibbet named stauros after him by men"
 * In ancient times, tau was used as a symbol for life or resurrection, whereas the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, theta, was considered the symbol of death.
 * In Biblical times, the taf... taw? T-Taw?... was put on men to distinguish those who lamented sin, although newer versions of the Bible have replaced the ancient term taw with mark... Wow!... (Ezekiel 9:4) or signature (Job 31:35). Its original sound value is a voiceless alveolar plosive, IPA /t/. Phew.
 * The symbolism of the cross was connected not only to the letter chi but also to tau, the equivalent of the last letter in the Phoenician and Old Hebrew alphabets, and which was originally cruciform in shape; see the Cross of Tau
 * An essay written around 160 AD, attributed to Lucian, a mock legal prosecution called The Consonants at Law - Sigma vs. Tau, in the Court of the Seven Vowels, contains a reference to the cross attribution. Sigma petitions the court to sentence Tau to death by crucifixion, saying:
 * Tau is usually considered the symbol of Franciscan orders due to St. Francis' love for it, symbol of the redemption and of the Cross. Almost all Franciscan churches have painted a tau with two crossing arms, both with "stigmatuh"... stigmata? ...and the one of Jesus and the other of Francis; usually members of the Secular Franciscan Order wear a wooden τ with a string with three knots around the neck. [sigh]

And then there's a bunch of character encodings, I'm not reading all this garbage.

These characters are only used as mathematical symbols. Stylized Greek text should be encoded using the normal Greek letters, with markup and formatting to indicate text style.

Notes 1. Uh, the date given on the source is after that of the archive. This is because the original publishing date is unknown, so the latest update date is stated instead. 2. The archived version of this source may take a few minutes to render the TeX math codes properly.

End now. What's left is the references, and I'm not reading the rest of that. That's-- that's the Simple and Clean Tau Mix, everybody! Goodbye!