On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 22:20:02 -0800, you wrote:

>Kelly J Kohls wrote:
>> Percentage = (Decimal * 100) / 255.  Now I am faced with having to use
>> sixteen bit operations for a problem that has eight bit values for both
>> input and output.
>
>If you need speed and are not too worried about using up code space,
>you could use a lookup table since  you have only(!) 256 possible values.
And remember that as 1% is more than two counts, you only need to
lookup the top 7 bits, requiring at most 128 entries in the table.
Fewer if accuracy isn't critical - 64 entries would still be within
2%.