Nine billion is not a number!
Nine billion is an index
Nine billion is not a code

The digit before ten opens
Before the bill sees zeros counted to before ten
Even daylight has no zero

Night has no zero

No part of time is called by zero
No part of beginning is called zero

The neonate addressed with a zero age
Had reached nine before birth
How did calculus not see it?

Nine billion is not a number
Nine billion is an estimate
Nine billion is a duration