A crossword clue

48-Across in today’s New York Times crossword: “group you can rely on when it counts?”

Twelve letters.

I’ve referred to their work as our nation’s once-every-decade exercise in large-scale enumerative combinatorics. (Although of course they do more than just the every ten years count required by the Constitution, and their mathematically trained employees are surely statisticians.)

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