I have a some items that I want to partition in to a number of buckets, such that each bucket is some fraction larger than the last.
items = 500
chunks = 5
increment = 0.20
{- find the proportions -}
sizes = take chunks (iterate (+increment) 1)
base = sum sizes / items
buckets = map (base *) sizes
main = print buckets
I'm sure there is a mathematically more elegant way to do this, but that's not my question. The end step is always printing out in scientific notation.
How do I get plain decimal output? I've looked at the Numeric package but I'm getting nowhere fast.