provide median() operator or note how to get it with quantile(0.5)

[tzz]

Currently, the quantile operator is provided, but there's no median. The median according to https://prometheus.io/docs/practices/histograms/ is trivially quantile(0.5, ...). Can you please consider either adding a new median operator to do this, or adding a note to quantile in the docs https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/querying/operators/ for users that don't know this?

Thank you.

[matthiasr]

Since it's so easy to do with the existing quantile function, I don't think we need a new one. For mentioning this, can you please make a PR in < https://github.com/prometheus/docs>?

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[tzz]

The operators.md reference was not in the docs repo so I created #3792 which should resolve it trivially.

Thanks.