The natural numbers are the numbers used to count things (the counting numbers). The smallest number of things you can have when you have some to count is one. Thus the smallest natural number is 1.
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1 is the Natural number which is the smallest Odd number.
The first counting number is 1. There is some disagreement over the smallest natural number. It is either 0 or 1 so your answer is either 0 or 1.
100 is the smallest 3-digit natural number.
No. The smallest natural number is zero. Some very old texts say that the smallest natural number is one, but today the Peano Axiom provides a definition that includes zero in the natural numbers.
The smallest counting or natural number is 1