What is Aristotle's view of the ontological status of numbers?

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If I’m not mistaken Aristotle rejected Plato’s view of abstract objects. What is Aristotle’s view of numbers, in that case?
 
“Quantity” under which falls numbers, is one of the 10 Categories of being for Aristotle, but it is an accidental form of being, and cannot subsist in itself (hence the rejection of Platonic Forms). Rather, quantity can only inhere in some kind of substance.
 
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