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Clarify sorting behaviour of topk and bottomk.

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Signed-off-by: Charles Korn <charles.korn@grafana.com>
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@ -321,6 +321,13 @@ vector. `by` and `without` are only used to bucket the input vector. Similar to
to be farthest from the top or bottom, respectively. Histogram samples in the
input vector are ignored, flagged by an info-level annotation.
If used in an instant query, `topk` and `bottomk` return series ordered by
value in descending or ascending order, respectively. If used with `by` or
`without`, then series within each bucket are sorted by value, and series in
the same bucket are returned consecutively, but there is no guarantee that
buckets of series will be returned in any particular order. No sorting applies
to range queries.
`limitk` and `limit_ratio` also return a subset of the input samples, including
the original labels in the result vector. The subset is selected in a
deterministic pseudo-random way. `limitk` picks _k_ samples, while