BigDecimal equals ZERO

So I've read that .equals() may not always work on a BigDecimal value, and that I should use .compareTo() instead, but I guess I never really believed it before, until today.

package sandbox;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
public class BigDecimalEqualsCompareTo {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        BigDecimal x = BigDecimal.ZERO;
        BigDecimal y = BigDecimal.valueOf((double) 0);
        
        x = x.add(y);

        if (x.equals(BigDecimal.ZERO)) {
            System.out.println(".equals worked!");
        }
        else {
            System.out.println(".equals FAILED!");
        }
        
        if (x.compareTo(BigDecimal.ZERO) == 0) {
            System.out.println(".compareTo worked!");
        }
        else {
            System.out.println(".compareTo FAILED!");
        }
        
    }
    
}

run:
.equals FAILED!
.compareTo worked!

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The above code demonstrates one instance in which .compareTo will work when .equals will fail.
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The value of y is "0.0" where BigDecimal.ZERO is actually "0", which you and I both know is the same number but because the scale of y is now 1, y is considered a different BigDecmal than ZERO. If you set the scale of both variables to the same, then .equals will work again, but at that point isn't easier to simply use .compareTo?