What is the word for the numerical portion of a numeric value with units?

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When I see 3 Miles the word "miles" represents the units. What is the word which 3 represents? I want to say "scalar value" but I know that's not correct. Or if it is correct is 4 also the scalar value in the phrase "4 square miles"? Is the word I'm looking for simply "value"?

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I wasn't sure myself, but I did a little digging and found this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_number