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Consider a random variable XX representing the time until a radioactive particle decays, following an Exponential distribution with parameter λ\lambda. Define Y=min(X1,X2,,Xn)Y = \min(X_1, X_2, \dots, X_n) where XiX_i are i.i.d. copies of XX. Which distribution does YY follow?