On the non-existence of a general Benford's law (Q2427203)

Benford's law states that in arbitrary collected ensemble of (real world) data certain digits appear more often as leading digits than others. More formally the mantissae follow a logarithmic distribution accordingly to the base representation that is chosen. In these short communication the author shows by a simple contradiction that if there was probability measure such that fulfills Benford's law simultaniously for an unbounded number of bases this leads to a contradiction.