diff --git a/include/xrpl/basics/Number.h b/include/xrpl/basics/Number.h
index ead21f0fd2..f48c4bafc9 100644
--- a/include/xrpl/basics/Number.h
+++ b/include/xrpl/basics/Number.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include <limits>
 #include <optional>
 #include <ostream>
+#include <stdexcept>
 #include <string>
 
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
@@ -67,9 +68,9 @@ isPowerOfTen(T value)
  *
  * The mantissa is in the range [min, max], where
  *
- * The mantissa_scale enum indicates whether the range is "small" or "large".
- * This intentionally restricts the number of MantissaRanges that can be
- * used to two: one for each scale.
+ * The mantissa_scale enum indicates whether the range is "small" or
+ * "large".  This intentionally prevents the creation of any
+ * MantissaRanges representing other values.
  *
  * The "small" scale is based on the behavior of STAmount for IOUs. It has a min
  * value of 10^15, and a max value of 10^16-1. This was sufficient for
diff --git a/src/libxrpl/basics/Number.cpp b/src/libxrpl/basics/Number.cpp
index c59b9b1f1a..fc1630dcb6 100644
--- a/src/libxrpl/basics/Number.cpp
+++ b/src/libxrpl/basics/Number.cpp
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #include <iterator>
 #include <limits>
 #include <numeric>
-#include <stdexcept>
 #include <string>
 #include <string_view>
 #include <type_traits>