Thanks for the link. Apparently, restricted behavior like I expected is reserved for if you use a MathContext. > Instead, for the BigDecimal operations taking

Thanks for the link. Apparently, restricted behavior like I expected is reserved for if you use a MathContext. > Instead, for the BigDecimal operations taking a MathContext parameter, if the MathContext has a nonzero precision, the set of possible representable values for the result is determined by the precision of the MathContext argument. Very strange. I would have expected something that is going to be mostly used for currency to not do implicit things by default.