Petitioner: Employer. The Case. On May 01, 1989, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision stating that the case of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (docket no. 87-1167) should be reversed and remanded and upholding the law in question [Civil Rights Act Of 1964 (Title VII)] as constitutional. The judgment rested on the Court's authority over statutory construction.
Integer Programming (IP) is a very powerful technique for tackling problems which have a mixture of continuous and discrete activities, notably those involving scheduling. Unlike Linear Programming (LP), IP cannot simply be treated as a black box.
Without the ability to convert back and forth between common representations and binary numbers, we would need to interact with computers in very awkward ways. Integer values are common data items. They are used in computer programs and computation all the time.