Eachleaf is the samesize, whichsimplifies the calculation to find any particularelementof thearray and alsomakesit easier for the collectortofind a suitablefree space toallocateeachleaf.
Or so it seemed until the 1950s, when collector Forest Sweet, who had accumulated six stray leaves (a leaf being a single two-sided page), deduced they came from Washington's original.