128ths of an inch

As fine as fractional measurement goes — beyond this, the trade speaks in decimal thousandths. Every mark, with its reduced name, exact decimal and exact millimetres.

Coarser rules: 16ths · 32nds · 64ths

Common questions

Does anyone actually measure in 128ths?
Rarely by eye — a 128th is about 0.2 mm, finer than most rules are engraved. The grid matters as a boundary: it is the last fractional step before work moves to decimal inches and thousandths.
How big is 1/128 of an inch in millimetres?
1/128″ is exactly 0.1984375 mm. Every mm value on this chart is exact, at 25.4 mm to the inch.
Where this comes from. Exact rational arithmetic on the values shown — fractions are pairs of integers until display, and inch–metric conversion uses 25.4 mm to the inch, exact by definition since 1959. See the full methodology.