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

include::../../../aggregations/metrics/percentile-aggregation.asciidoc[tag=approximate]

[WARNING]
====
`PERCENTILE` is also {wikipedia}/Nondeterministic_algorithm[non-deterministic].
This means you can get slightly different results using the same data.
====