Concrete and abstract numbers Recently I heard about the concepts of concrete number = numerus numeratus and abstract number = numerus numerans. See here. These seem to be mathematical-philosophical specialist terms of medevial (European) origin with a "scholastic sound".
In

Smith, D.E. (1953). History of Mathematics. Vol. II. Dover. pp. 11–12. ISBN 0-486-20430-8.

one finds

Question: Is this distinction still in use in contempory mathematics, at least at some places? Or is it a premodern concept which has completely disappeared?
A search for "concrete number" gives 54 results in this forum, but I do not have the impression that its use has a philosophical background. Similarly "abstract number" gives 15 results.
Update:
Here are some sources which prove the origin in the medieval (European) world of ideas:
1. Joh. Micrealius, Lexicon Philosophicum (1661)

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*Numerus est compositarum unitatum aggregatio. Vocatur alias multitudo & quantitas discreta.


*Numerus physicis alius est numerans, alius numeratus.


*Numerus numerans seu formalis est, quem anima apprehendit abstractum ab omnia materia. Dicitur etiam matbematicus.


*Numerus numeratus et materialis est, cujus unitates sunt res. Sic Aristoteles definivit tempus per numerum, puta numeratum, quia tempus est numerus motus per prius et posterius. Dicitur etiam physicus.
2. Time and Eternity in Augustine
(and in Medieval Scholasticism)

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*In short, using scholastic terminology, time is the numerus numeratus motus, but something is numerus numeratus, only if there is a numerans, although that which is the numerus numeratus can exist even if no numerans exists, but then it is not numerus numeratus, but numerus numerabilis.

3. Thomas de Aquino, Commentaria, Libros Physicorum, IV, Lectio 17

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*Uno modo id quod numeratur actu, vel quod est numerabile, ut puta cum dicimus decem homines aut decem equos; qui dicitur numerus 'numeratus', quia est numerus applicatus rebus numeratis. Alio modo dicitur numerus 'quo numeramus', idest ipse numerus absolute acceptus, ut duo, tria, quatuor.

 A: Past personal studies of mine of the mathematical foundations of dimensional analysis lead me to believe that the following answers are plausible ones.
Is it a premodern concept which has completely disappeared?
Quite the opposite. These concepts continued to be developed until they gave rise to a branch of mathematical physics known today as dimensional analysis. The concept of an abstract number is nowadays refereed as a dimensionless quantity and the concept of concrete number as dimensional quantity.
Is this distinction still in use in contemporary mathematics, at least at some places?
Yes. Whenever in mathematical modeling we feel the presence of dimensional physical quantities in a determined model is making its analysis harder, in the light of Buckingham $\pi$ theorem we might try to remove them through a technique known as nondimensionalization. Roughly, we try to algebraically combine dimensional quantities (concrete numbers) into dimensionless quantities (abstract numbers) and then rewrite the model in terms of these dimensionless quantities. A proof of Buckingham's $\pi$ theorem as well as the mathematical foundations of dimensional analysis can be found at Jan-David Hardtke (2019). On Buckingham's Π-Theorem. arXiv:1912.08744 [math-ph].
An example of nondimensionalization in the branch of the qualitative analysis of differential equations can be found at section 1.2 of J.D. Murray (2011). Mathematical Biology: I. An Introduction, Third Edition., and in the branch of statistics can be found at Pearson's correlation coefficient which is essentially the nondimensionalization of the covariance between two random variables.
In case you don't get any answer you find helpful then I suggest emailing Jan-David Hardtke whose e-mail can be found at his above linked article.
