The smallest whole number is 1. (Also known as "one" or "unity".)
0 (called "zero" or "nil") means "nothing exists" so 0 cannot ever be a real number.
In other words 0 certainly cannot be the smallest whole number because it simply is not a real number of any kind.
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The smallest whole number is 1. 0.117 is only 11.7 percent of 1. 0.117 doesn't have what it takes to be a whole number. Not even the smallest one.
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The smallest factor is 1.
It is replacing the number by the whole number such that the difference between the number and that whole number is the smallest that it can be.