Creating an element-wise minimum Series from two other Series in Python Pandas

Question

I am having trouble finding a way to do an efficient element-wise minimum of two Series objects in pandas. For example I can add two Series easily enough:

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Answer 1

Same answer as Andy Hayden, but a bit easier to read:

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> s1 = pd.Series(data=[1,2,3,4,5], index=[1,2,3,4,5])
>>> s2 = pd.Series(data=[5,1,3,5], index=[1,2,3,4])
>>> pd.DataFrame([s1, s2]).min()
1    1.0
2    1.0
3    3.0
4    4.0
5    5.0
dtype: float64