How many positions are set to see the president if he were to die according to the presidential succession act

Explanation:

1      Vice President

2Speaker of the House of Representatives

3President pro tempore of the Senate

4Secretary of State

5Secretary of the Treasury

6Secretary of Defense

7Attorney General

8Secretary of the Interior

9Secretary of Agriculture

10Secretary of Commerce

11Secretary of Labor

12Secretary of Health and Human Services

13Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

---Secretary of Transportation

14Secretary of Energy

15Secretary of Education

16Secretary of Veterans Affairs

17     Secretary of Homeland Security

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion