How do I get to haskell to output numbers NOT in scientific notation?

Question

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
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Answer 1

> putStrLn $ Numeric.showFFloat Nothing 1e40 ""
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000.0

Answer 2

Try printf. e.g.:

> import Text.Printf
> printf "%d\n" (23::Int)
23
> printf "%s %s\n" "Hello" "World"
Hello World
> printf "%.2f\n" pi
3.14