Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
1,02 billones de euros
English translation:
EUR 1.02 trillion
Spanish term
Spain
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Accredited translators 20 yrs experience
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, French to Spanish
1,02 billones de euros
También tengo otro caso 50.000 millones de euros.. Este lo tengo claro: EUR 50 billion.
Sólo quería confirmar. Saludos y muchas gracias.
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Candace Holt Ryan
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Proposed translations
United States
Semantic precision, syntactic accuracy
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
EUR 1.02 trillion
Citas de Wikipedia:
En la escala numérica larga utilizada tradicionalmente en español, y en la mayoría de los países de Europa continental, un billón equivale a 10 elevado a la potencia 12, esto es, un millón de millones. En el Sistema Internacional de Unidades se representa con el prefijo «tera».
Por ejemplo, el PIB de los Estados Unidos, que en inglés es de unos sixteen trillion US dollars, corresponde a «sólo» 16 billones de dólares en español, francés, italiano, sueco y otros idiomas (aunque, por supuesto, ambas denominaciones se refieren exactamente a la misma cifra.
Vale aclarar, entonces, que el número billón (en castellano), al que se hace referencia en la entrada original, equivale, en el léxico anglosajón, a la cifra denominada como trillion.
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philgoddard
: We had this recently. Pity the asker is too busy to check the glossary.
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Thanks, Phil!
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Charles Davis
: Yes, it's equivalent to 1.02 trillion, provided they're using "billón" correctly, and I would put it like this rather than as 1,020 billion.
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Thank you, Charles.
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Neil Ashby
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Thank you, Neil.
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Elizabeth Joy Pitt de Morales
: Definitely "1.02 trillion". And Charles is right; I've found "billón" used incorrectly in Spanish-language source texts.
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Thank you, Elizabeth.
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Discussion
IMO, 1.02 trillion, if that was the author's intention, leaves less room for misinterpretation than 1,020 billion (which just looks wrong in my scientist's eye because one should naturally pass on to the next unit of 1000, i.e., trillion)
It is true, however, that billón, which of course means a million million (10^12) in Spanish, is used sometimes to mean a thousand million, as a calque of EN billion. Although this is obviously wrong, if the context suggests that 1,02 billones could mean 1,02 mil millones, it would do no harm to add a note.
http://www.fundeu.es/recomendacion/elbillion-inglesno-equiva...
In these cases it is essential to know what the author of the original source text meant, as errors are often passed on unknowingly.