I see dimensionless quantities described as 'pure numbers' I mostly understand this in terms of ratios (angles, a lot of dimensionless constants) as we are not really counting or measuring anything but what about something such as the number of coils in a Solenoid. We treat this as dimensionless even though we are counting something, even in the sense of ratios or dimensionless constants, though there is no dimension in the sense of Length, time etc but they are still quantities of a system and quantify something about it, so they aren't pure in the completely abstract way that mathematicians use them.
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This may help - Dimensional analysis, dimensionless quantities and ratios – mmesser314 Jan 01 '22 at 19:41
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thanks for that, I do for the most part understand dimensional analysis but I just find a lot of the conventions strange. – user1007028 Jan 01 '22 at 20:09