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### `PERCENTILE` is (usually) approximate [esql-percentile-approximate]

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`PERCENTILE` is also [non-deterministic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_algorithm).
This means you can get slightly different results using the same data.
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