The president of Sugar Land has created this iterative rule for generating sequences of whole numbers:
1) If a number is or less, double that number.
2) If a number is greater than , subtract from it.
Let be the first number in a sequence created by the two rules above. is considered a "sweet" number if the sequence that starts with contains the number . If not, then is considered a bitter number and banned from Sugar Land. Furthermore, if the bitter number is divisible by , then it is placed in the Bad Numbers Hall of Notoriety in Bitter Nation. How many numbers from to are in the Bad Numbers Hall of Notoriety in Bitter Nation?
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