diff --git a/src/main/java/tools/jackson/databind/node/JsonNodeFactory.java b/src/main/java/tools/jackson/databind/node/JsonNodeFactory.java
index 8963677d81..98a138c5f5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/tools/jackson/databind/node/JsonNodeFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/tools/jackson/databind/node/JsonNodeFactory.java
@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ public ValueNode numberNode(BigDecimal v)
         if (v == null) {
             return nullNode();
         }
-
         /*
          * If the user wants the exact representation of this big decimal,
          * return the value directly
diff --git a/src/test/java/tools/jackson/databind/node/JsonNodeFactoryTest.java b/src/test/java/tools/jackson/databind/node/JsonNodeFactoryTest.java
index 6d7191c2b5..d7c9813c59 100644
--- a/src/test/java/tools/jackson/databind/node/JsonNodeFactoryTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/tools/jackson/databind/node/JsonNodeFactoryTest.java
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@
 
 public class JsonNodeFactoryTest extends NodeTestBase
 {
-    private final ObjectMapper MAPPER = objectMapper();
+    private final ObjectMapper MAPPER = JsonMapper.builder()
+            .enable(DeserializationFeature.USE_BIG_DECIMAL_FOR_FLOATS)
+            .build();
 
     static class SortingNodeFactory extends JsonNodeFactory {
         private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
@@ -72,4 +74,27 @@ public void testSortingObjectNode() throws Exception
        assertEquals(BIGGER_OUTPUT,
                MAPPER.writeValueAsString(mapper.readTree(BIGGER_INPUT)));
    }
+
+   // 06-Nov-2022, tatu: Wasn't being tests, oddly enough
+   public void testBigDecimalNormalization() throws Exception
+   {
+       final BigDecimal NON_NORMALIZED = new BigDecimal("12.5000");
+       final BigDecimal NORMALIZED = NON_NORMALIZED.stripTrailingZeros();
+
+       // By default, 2.x WILL normalize
+       JsonNode n1 = MAPPER.readTree(String.valueOf(NON_NORMALIZED));
+       assertEquals(NORMALIZED, n1.decimalValue());
+
+       // But can change
+       JsonNodeFactory nf = JsonNodeFactory.withExactBigDecimals(true);
+       JsonNode n2 = nf.numberNode(NON_NORMALIZED);
+       assertEquals(NON_NORMALIZED, n2.decimalValue());
+
+       ObjectMapper nonNormMapper = JsonMapper.builder()
+               .enable(DeserializationFeature.USE_BIG_DECIMAL_FOR_FLOATS)
+               .nodeFactory(nf)
+               .build();
+       JsonNode n3 = nonNormMapper.readTree(String.valueOf(NON_NORMALIZED));
+       assertEquals(NON_NORMALIZED, n3.decimalValue());
+   }
 }