Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry.

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

In the 11th inning, Williams ' prediction came true, as he hit a 600-footer to help the Red Sox win.

Another prediction, that the Berlin Wall would be destroyed in 1989, also came true, although the follow-up gag that it would be " quickly replaced by a moat full of alligators " obviously did not.

This prediction had an unusual twist in that its announcement by the University of Texas ( UT ) — for a destructive earthquake in Oaxaca at an undetermined date — came just ten days before the date given by another prediction for a destructive earthquake in Oaxaca.

CEPEC concluded that the " uncertainty along with the large geographic area included in the prediction ( about 12, 400 square miles ) leads ( us ) to conclude that the results do not at this time warrant any special policy actions in California .” The predicted time window came and went with no significant earthquake.

Having succeeded to the earldom in 1891, Macdonald's prediction came true when Lord Minto was named Governor General of Canada in the summer of 1898.

Goldman's analysis would rule out Gettier cases in that Smith's beliefs are not caused by the truths of those beliefs ; it is merely accidental that Smith's beliefs in the Gettier cases happen to be true, or that the prediction made by Smith: " The winner of the job will have 10 coins ", on the basis of his putative belief, ( see also bundling ) came true in this one case.

His concern was justified when his prediction came true later.

The prediction came true ; Following his victory over King Amaziah of Judah, Jehoash sacked Jerusalem, taking hostages to assure good conduct.

This prediction came true when Köln lost to Hamburg 0 – 1 in the third to last match of the season.

Apple employees made T-shirts graphically displaying their prediction that the result would be an IBM-only project, a prediction that came true on December 19, 1995 when Apple officially pulled out of the project.

Before this, he had been confined to his palace by his father, who feared that he would become an ascetic if he came into contact with sufferings of life according to a prediction.

Because of this one reported sighting, Kreskin said his prediction came true anyway and therefore he did not have to pay the money he previously announced.

In 2005's United States v. Booker,, this prediction also came to pass.

" Working day and night without food and rest " Taqi al-Din studied the comet and came up with the prediction that it was " an indication of well-being and splendor ," and would mean a " conquest of Persia ".

In both cases the concept came from mathematics and in its original sense is defined as the absence of a common unit of measurement that would allow a direct and exact measurement of two variables, such as the prediction of the diagonal of a square from the relationship of its sides.

Raynal's prediction came true on the night of 21 August 1791, when the slaves of Saint Domingue rose in revolt and plunged the colony into civil war.

When the prediction came true, it fueled new interest in that arguably specious correlation.

His prediction came true, and he finished 14th in the class.

Paul's prediction immediately came true.

His prediction came through and Clare were the All-Ireland champions for the first time in 81 years.

" That leads to some difficult decisions, but they are unavoidable if we are to deal with the threat … None of the Führers prophetic words has come so inevitably true as his prediction that if Jewry succeeded in provoking a second world war, the result would be not the destruction of the Aryan race, but rather the wiping out of the Jewish race.

After the prediction became true he was released by Vespasian who considered his gift of prophecy to be divine.

This prediction meanwhile has proved to be true in a variety of fields.

The prediction did not come true.

Since the quote is typically used to demonstrate the fallacy of predictions, if Watson did make such a prediction in 1943, then, as Gordon Bell pointed out in his ACM 50 years celebration keynote, it would have held true for some ten years.

In other words, the foreboding dream not only predicted the future, but the dream was the cause of its prediction coming true.

Her prediction began to come true when bread prices started to rise due to the severe 1788 – 1789 winter.

Here, Diomedes makes a prediction based on his reasoning that eventually becomes true.

It is then that Fertility finds Tender and gives him a prediction to make on TV that will seem like a miracle when it comes true.

When the predictions proved true and Eisenhower won a landslide within 1 % of the initial prediction, Charles Collingwood, the on-air announcer, embarrassingly announced that they had covered up the earlier prediction.

Later, his prediction has come true, and he makes a scene in the hospital in front of Captain Gunther.

This prediction has come true, as vast numbers of business travelers are buying airfares only in economy class for business travel.

This prediction of Ferdowsi has come true and many Persian literary figures, historians and biographers have praised him and the Shahnameh.

By the spring of 1922 Sarnoff's prediction of popular demand for broadcasting had come true, and over the next eighteen months, he gained in stature and influence.

This prediction inevitably becomes true as Henry is pulled further and further into his aunt's lifestyle, and delves deeper into her past.

This was during the Cultural Revolution, when " belief in earthquake prediction was made an element of ideological orthodoxy that distinguished the true party liners from right wing deviationists " and record keeping was disordered, making it difficult to verify details of the claim, even as to whether there was an ordered evacuation.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behaviour.

After massive changes to the roster, Laimbeer predicted before the 2003 season that the Shock would be league champions, and his prediction would unbelievably come true.

It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

Euan MacKie, recognizing that Thom's theories needed to be tested, excavated at the Kintraw standing stone site in Argyllshire in 1970 and 1971 to check whether the latter's prediction of an observation platform on the hill slope above the stone was correct.

Shortly after, in 1869, Irish chemist Thomas Andrews studied the phase transition from a liquid to a gas and coined the term critical point to describe the instant at which a gas and a liquid were indistinguishable as phases, and Dutch physicist Johannes van der Waals supplied the theoretical framework which allowed the prediction of critical behavior based on measurements at much higher temperatures.

In 1997 the prediction division of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University began generating seasonal climate forecasts on a real-time basis.

A full Bayesian analysis of the WMAP power spectrum demonstrates that the quadrupole prediction of Lambda-CDM cosmology is consistent with the data at the 10 % level and that the observed octupole is not remarkable.

Opinion polls at the time show that the difference between the two main contenders had been too close to make any accurate prediction as to the outcome of the elections.

While he did not originate the term, Charles Darwin identified the argument as a possible way to falsify a prediction of the theory of evolution at the outset.

Quantum mechanics has superseded classical mechanics at the foundational level and is indispensable for the explanation and prediction of processes at molecular and ( sub ) atomic level.

Kuroda's prediction was verified with the discovery of evidence of natural self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions in the past at Oklo in Gabon, Africa in September 1972.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

After the development of quantum mechanics, it was discovered that tunneling of the wavefunctions of the protons through the repulsive barrier allows for fusion at a lower temperature than the classical prediction.

The time evolution of wave functions is deterministic in the sense that-given a wavefunction at an initial time-it makes a definite prediction of what the wavefunction will be at any later time.

In 2006, NASA made a prediction for the next sunspot maximum, being between 150 and 200 around the year 2011 ( 30-50 % stronger than cycle 23 ), followed by a weak maximum at around 2022.

Any disagreement between prediction and experiment demonstrates the incorrectness of the scientific theory, or at least limits its accuracy or domain of validity.

As a result of cooperation of the companies mentioned above, a vast high-tech complex is to be constructed in the next few years, providing as many as 10, 000 jobs ( a prediction for 2010 ) at the cost of about 450 million euros.

In linear prediction coding, the all-pole filter replaces the bandpass filter bank of its predecessor and is used at the encoder to whiten the signal ( i. e., flatten the spectrum ) and again at the decoder to re-apply the spectral shape of the target speech signal.

The unexpected hanging paradox, hangman paradox, unexpected exam paradox, surprise test paradox or prediction paradox is a paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event ( e. g. a prisoner's hanging, or a school test ) which he is told will occur at an unexpected time.

The counter-argument to this is that in order to claim that a statement will not be a surprise, it is not necessary to predict the truth or falsity of the statement at the time the claim is made, but only to show that such a prediction will become possible in the interim period.