> Thus, real-world distributions that span several orders of magnitude rather uniformly They mean uniformly on a log distribution. Ie, there are a uniform numb

> Thus, real-world distributions that span several orders of magnitude rather uniformly They mean uniformly on a log distribution. Ie, there are a uniform number of elements between 10^x and 10^(x+1), for many different values of x. This is best shown by the graph here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law#Overview