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The algorithm is more complicated than that. I don't recall the exact details, but I'm pretty sure it includes the rate of upvotes, not just the number of them. And while it can be overriden by moderators, I doubt that they're doing that very often.
The algorithm really ought to be public.
If there is such an algorithm in the codebase that's published on github, it shouldn't be too hard to find.