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

pd.Series([1,2,3,4,5]).clip(upper=pd.Series([6,5,4,3,2]))

will get you:

0    1
1    2
2    3
3    3
4    2
dtype: int64