stacks/minimum element in constant time

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Describe your change:

Given a stack of elements, return the minimum element at constant time O(1). The code is well-documented and has a link to the problem.

• Add an algorithm?
• Fix a bug or typo in an existing algorithm?
• Add or change doctests? -- Note: Please avoid changing both code and tests in a single pull request.
• Documentation change?

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• I have read CONTRIBUTING.md.
• This pull request is all my own work -- I have not plagiarized.
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• This PR only changes one algorithm file. To ease review, please open separate PRs for separate algorithms.
• All new Python files are placed inside an existing directory.
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• All functions and variable names follow Python naming conventions.
• All function parameters and return values are annotated with Python type hints.
• All functions have doctests that pass the automated testing.
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• If this pull request resolves one or more open issues then the description above includes the issue number(s) with a closing keyword: "Fixes #ISSUE-NUMBER".

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• Formatted string literals (f-strings)
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• doctest
• unittest
• pytest

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[cclauss]

Closing require_tests PRs to prepare for Hacktoberfest