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 Yes, there is no such thing, at least in terms of the actual code and protocol, as a whole coin.  There are no decimal places in the bitcoin protocol it's just integers.

You can stack as many units as you want.  What is colloquially referred to as a "whole bitcoin" is simply 100 million units... which themselves are colloquially referred to as Satoshi. 
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