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

In general (since it's not clear to me if this is a Java or Language-Agnostic question) you would divide the value you have by Integer.MAX_VALUE, multiply by 255 and convert to an integer.