A decimal number is not always smaller than a whole number. This is a decimal number 2.45
The number on the left of the decimal point shows the whole numbers.
The numbers on the right of the point shows the parts/fractions.
This number is not a whole number .098
This number is a whole number 2.00
This number has whole numbers and parts/fractions of the whole 2.098
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The result is less than the whole number and greater than or equal to the decimal. Unless the whole number is negative in which case the result is greater than the whole number and less than or equal to the decimal.
It need not be. 1.5 * 6 = 9, which is bigger than 6, not smaller.
Any decimal smaller than 0.2 . There are an infinite number of them.
... less than the whole number.
You will get a number - whole or fraction - whose magnitude will be smaller than the original.