"I'm not able to articulate an advantage beyond pure numbers."

It is thus a "pure" number, and as such always has a dimension of 1.

A lot more goes into a pick as important as this than the pure numbers.

There's no need to specify any units, as we're dealing with pure numbers.

Those are questions of equal value to the pure numbers, whether the numbers are going up or down.

The units, therefore, cancel out, and we are left with a "pure number."

Then he tried valiantly to present to them some of the wonders of pure number.

Multiplication and division by a pure number is again similar.

For the 3,000 or so people who work in the corridor, money has been distilled to its essence: the realm of pure numbers.

Whatever the pure numbers, the year has been Faldo's most emotionally satisfying.