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

If you are complaining that the low numbers are becoming zero, then you might want to normalize the values to 255 rather than the entire range of the values.

The formula would become:

currentValue / (max value of the set)