Not thatOK, by Seva's request I'm getting somewhat more serious about this answer:) Fix $a$, but yes$b$. Take anlarge $N$$M$ to be chosen shortly. Take a $3MN$ digit number $n$ (something from $0$ to $10^{3MN}-1$, written with head zeroes if necessary) and split its decimal representation into pieces of length $3M$ where $M$ is large but fixed. A noticeable portion ofLet us call these $3M$-digit pieces will be of$n_k$ so $n=\sum_{k=0}^{N-1}10^{3Mk}n_k$. Consider $n_k$ as independent random variables uniformly distributed in the kindset $M$ zeroes$\{0,1,2,\dots,10^{3M}-1\}$. By the law of large numbers, somethingwith probability close to $1$, there are about $M$ zeroes.$N\cdot 10^{-2M}$ pieces $n_k$ that start and end with $M$ zeroes will control(with the transfers ifmiddle $M$ is large enough and, conditioning upondigits being anything). Call the location of thesenumbers $n$ that satisfy this property typical. The typical numbers can be split into groups according to exactly which $k$ correspond to such pieces (denote by $K$ the set of all such $k$) and what number is formed by the restdigits outside these groups (that number is $n'=\sum_{k\notin K}10^{3Mk}n_k$). We need to show that in each group $G=G(K,n')$ of typical numbers the representationportion of the solutions is small.
As Fedor explained, we see that these pieces will give us long sumsif $M$ exceeds the number of independentdigits in $a$, we have $s(an)=s(an')+\sum_{k\in K}s(an_k)$ and similarly for $b$. Thus $$ s(an)-s(bn)=s(an')-s(bn')+\sum_{k\in K}X_k $$ with $$ X_k=s(an_k)-s(bn_k) $$ The random variables $X_k$ are i. Nowi.d. and their distribution is completely determined by $a,b$, we need 3 statements:and $M$.
If $X$ is an integer-valued random variable with finitely many values that is not constant, then $\lim_{N\to\infty}\sup_{k\in\mathbb Z} P\{\sum_{i=1}^N X_i=k\}=0$ where $X_i$ are i.i.d. random variables equidistributed with $X$.
If $s(an)-s(bn)=C$ for all $n$ (i.e., if we cannot choose $M$ to use Claim 1), then $C=0$.
If $s(an)=s(bn)$ for all $n$, then $a$ and $b$ differ only by the number of zeroes in the end.
Claim 3 isSuppose that the only non-obviousequality $s(an)=s(bn)$ fails for at least one $n\ge 0$. I doThen (since it holds for $n=0$) $X_k$ is not have a decent proofconstant for sufficiently large $M$ and we can use the following
Probabilistic Claim. If $X$ is any fixed integer-valued random variable with finitely many values that is not constant, then $\lim_{Q\to\infty}\sup_{S\in\mathbb Z} P\{\sum_{k=1}^Q X_k+S=0\}=0$ where $X_k$ are i.i.d. random variables equidistributed with $X$.
Since the cardinality $Q$ of it yet (if I find one while I'm driving$K$ for every typical group is huge when $N$ is large enough, we conclude that the above displayed equation has very little chance to workhold in every typical group $G(K,n')$ and, I'll post itthereby, butoverall.
However, most likelyif $s(an)=s(bn)$ for all $n$, someone else will beat me to that)then $a$ and $b$ differ only by the number of zeroes in the end.
I apologize if this edit rendered some comments meaningless.