Depends on where you buy them. There are a lot of fake Mitutoyo calipers on e. g. eBay, and not everyone might be aware of that.
And let’s face it, 5 tenths is way beyond what people need at home, 95% of people don’t have any equipment that would even allow them to control any process to that degree of accuracy.
Also, shout out for Shars as another budget option.
Hey, absolutely. In fact, I’d love to personally learn just how unfathomable and mind blowing the difference is, to feel humbled and to celebrate what humans can achieve. But the attitude with which the athletes were approached is a whole other topic.
Who believes that? Have those people never seen a professional table tennis match? Even playing against someone just “pretty good”, let’s say at a local sports club, is insane.
Trying to follow a serve from a player at an Olympic level… the hubris, I can’t imagine what’s going on in their heads. Well, unfortunately, I probably can.
Plus handling errors, of course.
But yeah, a $170 Mitutoyo caliper will also not display anything beyond five tenths, so that’s definitely a hard limit.