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Some people have an unhealthy obsession over the tiniest, most insignificant things.

In this case it's probably about using U vs V for voltage (U is eg. more commonly taught/used in Europe and is recommended by IEC norm 60050 [1], V is more commonly taught/used in North America ; there might also be different conventions in different industry branches). In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter of course, but you know, we are on the Internet.

[1] - https://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ie...




Electric potential is V according to that site [1]; though im not familiar with whatever minute differences U vs V is in Ohms law...growing up I learned it as E or V.

Edit: SI unit for volt is V also

[1] https://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ie...




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