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Why isn't there a minus sign in Ohm's law, $V = IR$?

In the comments, Hal Hollis pointed to the "passive sign convention".

The passive sign convention is defined like this:

passive sign convention diagram, from wikipedia

So it is simply taken as a definition that the positive direction for current is the opposite direction as the positive direction for voltage. With this convention, $V=IR$ is the correct equation.

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