The problem with Tony Meyer's answer is that what Moffat has said actually directly contradicts the events of Day of the Doctor. Spoilers ahoy:
In the scene where the three Doctors are in the presence of The Moment, 10 and 11 explicitly acknowledge that the War Doctor is The Doctor, and the War Doctor accepts that this is the case.
It's worth noting that there hasn't to my knowledge been a doctor referred to by number in the entirety of new Who (my memory of the old Who specials isn't sufficiently good to comment on those), so the numbers we use to distinguish them are probably out of universe. It's likely that the current numbering system will continue to be used for convenience's sake, but there is nonetheless a very real sense that the Hurt regeneration was the Ninth Doctor.
As has been pointed out in another question, the Second Doctor's regeneration occurs off camera, and it is therefore theoretically possible that other regenerations exist between Troughton and Pertwee, but there is no suggestion in canon which I am aware of that this is the case.
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