>>13911570the answer that you are looking for is "it's an element of a field", which means that it can be added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided.
it's legit one number, but it can be represented by two real numbers.
a practical example is the complex plane can be represented by a 2d vectorspace over the reals. however, it is also a 1d vectorspace over the complex numbers. notice how in the first case you are representing complex numbers as vectors, but in the second case complex numbers as scalars.
