BigDecimal, division & MathContext - very strange behaviour

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Published on 2010-03-27T13:59:18Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 14:03 UTC
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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 = total.divide(BigDecimal.valueOf(3), new MathContext(2,    RoundingMode.FLOOR));
System.out.println("divided price2=" + goodPrice2.toPlainString());
// prints 66

BUG ?

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