We present a scheme-independent calculation of the infrared value of the anomalous dimension of the fermion bilinear, γ ψψ,IR in an SU(3) gauge theory as a function of the number of fermions, N f , via a series expansion in powers of ∆ f , where ∆ f = (16.5 − N f ), to order ∆ 4 f . We perform an extrapolation to obtain the first determination of the exact γ ψψ,IR from continuum field theory. The results are compared with calculations of the n-loop values of this anomalous dimension from series in powers of the coupling and from lattice measurements.