Probably he got confused by the use of E in Ohm's law. That's how physicists write it, we EEs use V. Physicists will tell us that E is electromotiv force and voltage is only a specific form of it in units of volts yadda yadda yadda. Cut to the chase, Einstein, we're talking voltages here, not splitting atoms! Use V!
So totally understandable that he never could recover from seeing that inferior notation :-)
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Pet peeve of mine since forever...
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