Neither question is very good. The one about the IVT is not bad enough that I would advocate for its closure. The other is a PSQ, the solution to which is a straight-forward computation, and (in my opinion) should be closed for lacking context. Barring that, it could very reasonably be closed as a duplicate of any one of a number of questions about Euler's formula.
@カカロット And the accepted answer to the first question is wrong... :(
@カカロット I actually rather like (1). That particular metric does come up quite a lot as an example, then shows up again later in various contexts. It is pretty borderline as an HNQ, but I don't think that it is unreasonable to leave it up as a hot question.
(2) is not great. I've seen it two or three times in the last couple of days (at least once on the "close" queue). I have not voted to close it, but I have been very tempted to do so. It definitely should not be on the HNQ (IMNSHO).
Sure I've only linked them to have them here (since there were quite many from MSE at that time on HNQ), not to remove all of them. I think it's not the end of the world having 2 there, rather than 4.
After all, if there are other questions which satisfy the criteria, then the removed ones are quickly replaced. (I do not remember how often the script checks the question. Is it 15 minutes? 30 minutes?)
@Randal'Thor It's the second. The formula picks a set of questions, which we then narrow down - throw away questions picked > 3 days ago, remove questions with MathJax in titles and questions that aren't in English, then trim per-site options down to 5 hottest, and grab top 100 for HNQ out of that. Note that the list is cached (and, under normal circumstances) recalculated every 15 minutes. Any given question isn't guaranteed to spend 72 hours in the list. — Adam Lear ♦Mar 12 at 16:03
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