import Data.List (sort) fivenum :: [Double] -> [Double] fivenum [] = [] fivenum xs | l >= 5 = fmap ( (/ 2) . ( (+) . (!!) s . floor <*> (!!) s . ceiling ) . pred ) [1, q, succ l / 2, succ l - q, l] | otherwise = s where l = realToFrac $ length xs q = realToFrac (floor $ (l + 3) / 2) / 2 s = sort xs main :: IO () main = print $ fivenum [ 0.14082834, 0.09748790, 1.73131507, 0.87636009, -1.95059594, 0.73438555, -0.03035726, 1.46675970, -0.74621349, -0.72588772, 0.63905160, 0.61501527, -0.98983780, -1.00447874, -0.62759469, 0.66206163, 1.04312009, -0.10305385, 0.75775634, 0.32566578 ]