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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_min_distance(self, mesh):
 """ For each point in ``mesh`` compute the minimum distance to each surface element and return the smallest value. See :meth:`superclass method <.base.BaseSurface.get_min_distance>` for spec of input and result values. """

        dists = [surf.get_min_distance(mesh) for surf in self.surfaces]

        return numpy.min(dists, axis=0)