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.
In algebra, students use letters and symbols in place of numbers in order to solve mathematical equations. In this branch of math, the term integer is frequently used. An integer is any whole number, whether that number is positive or negative. Fractions are not whole numbers and, thus, are not integers. Integers come in multiple forms and are applied in algebraic problems and equations.