Mr Leon's book (minor spoiler!)

[Feren]

Did anybody else notice a strange number coincidence in Mr Leon's book? On one of the pages it says exactly this.
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"The Volokas body structure is quite different from ours. They are made out of photons and sound waves. They're also both male and female. When the youngster reach age 299,792,459 they are crowned with the shield."
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Now that's interesting, they are described as photons of light, and at age 299,792,459 ((almost exactly the speed of light in meters a second, or arguably exactly the speed of light depending on when it was measured)) they get a mask (Shield). What a coincidence!