What causes “Non-terminating decimal expansion” exception from BigDecimal.divide? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Here's the problem

bd1.divide(bd2)

You need to use one of the overloaded divide() methods that takes a rounding mode (in various forms) - you cannot do the rounding after the division because with a nonterminating fraction the intermediate result would either already need to be rounded, or require infinite storage space.