64ths of an inch

The drill-chart grid: sixty-four marks, each with its reduced name, exact decimal and exact millimetres. For drills near these sizes, see BenchReference.

Neighbouring rules: 16ths · 32nds · 128ths

Common questions

Why are drill sizes given in 64ths?
Fractional drill sets step by 64ths because that is the finest rule fractional tooling is made to. Between those steps live the number and letter gauge drills — a different system, listed on BenchReference.
How big is 1/64 of an inch in millimetres?
1/64″ is exactly 0.396875 mm — about the thickness of four sheets of paper. Every mm value here is exact.
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.