min_n and max_n

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+### min_n
+
+Returns the `n` minimum elements from the provided list. If `n` is greater than or equal to the provided list's length, then return the original list(sorted in ascending order).
+
+Use `list.sort()` combined with the `deepcopy` function from the inbuilt `copy` module to create a shallow clone of the list and sort it in ascending order. Use `[:n]` to get the specified number of elements. Omit the second argument, `n`, to get a one-element array
+
+``` py 
+from copy import deepcopy
+def min_n(arr,n = 1):
+    numbers = deepcopy(arr)
+    numbers.sort(   )
+    return numbers[:n]
+```