Those wacky electrical engineers

I think I just got a pun that's deeply embedded in circuit notation. The symbol for electrical resistance is Ω and the units used are Ohms, after ninteenth century German physicist Georg Ohm. I don't know how symbols are usually assigned to units in physics, but I strongly suspect that this one was chosen because it's an Ohm-ega. Does anyone know otherwise?

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