Scale numbers to be <= 255?

Question

I have cells for whom the numeric value can be anything between 0 and Integer.MAX_VALUE. I would like to color code these cells correspondingly.

If the val

Answer 1

Here are a bunch of algorithms for scaling, normalizing, ranking, etc. numbers by using Extension Methods in C#, although you can adapt them to other languages:

http://www.redowlconsulting.com/Blog/post/2011/07/28/StatisticalTricksForLists.aspx

There are explanations and graphics that explain when you might want to use one method or another.