How is it that Java's BigDecimal can be this painful?

Double d = 13.3D;

BigDecimal bd1 = new BigDecimal(d);
BigDecimal bd2 = new BigDecimal(String.valueOf(d));


System.out.println("RESULT 1: "+bd1.toString());
System.out.println("RESULT 2: "+bd2.toString());

RESULT 1: 13.300000000000000710542735760100185871124267578125
RESULT 2: 13.3

Is there any situation where Result 1 would be desired? I know that Java 1.5 changed the toString() method but was this the intended consequence?

Also I realise that BigDecimal has doubleValue() etc, but the library that I am working with helpfully uses a toString() and I can't change that :-(

Cheers.

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