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1. BigDecimal, division & MathContext - very strange behaviour    stackoverflow.com

CentOs 5.4, OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09) 

MathContext context = new MathContext(2, RoundingMode.FLOOR);  
BigDecimal total = new BigDecimal("200.0", context);

BigDecimal goodPrice = total.divide(BigDecimal.valueOf(3), 2, RoundingMode.FLOOR);
System.out.println("divided price=" + goodPrice.toPlainString());
// prints 66.66

BigDecimal goodPrice2 ...

2. What is it better: MathContext or BigDecimal setScale(...)    forums.oracle.com