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SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Fair Value Assumptions) (Details) $ in Millions | 3 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2015 USD ($) | Oct. 31, 2015 company | Oct. 31, 2014 | Oct. 31, 2013
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Number of peer companies used | company |  | 11 |  |
Employee Stock Option [Member] |  |  |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Weighted average risk-free interest rate |  | 1.60% | 1.69% | 0.86%
Dividend yield |  | 0.00% | 1.00% | 1.00%
Weighted average volatility |  | 31.00% | 39.00% | 39.00%
Expected life |  | 4 years 11 months | 5 years 9 months 18 days | 5 years 9 months 18 days
LTPP [Member] |  |  |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |  |  |
Volatility of Keysight shares (Agilent shares for FY13) |  | 26.00% | 0.00% | 37.00%
Volatility of selected peer-company shares minimum |  | 17.00% | 0.00% | 6.00%
Volatility of selected peer-company shares maximum |  | 67.00% | 0.00% | 64.00%
Price-wise correlation with selected peers |  | 38.00% | 0.00% | 49.00%
Increase (decrease) in liability settled awards | $ | $ 4 |  |  |

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- Definition The measure of the percentage amount of share price correlation during the period with a selected group of peer companies. Pair-wise correlations with selected peers is calculated as the correlation between each pair and the sum of correlations divided by the number of pairs to produce the average correlation between each pair. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The measure of the percentage amount by which a share price fluctuates during a period for peer companies - maximum range. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The measure of the percentage amount by which a share price fluctuates during a period for peer companies - minimum range. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2)(ii) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6415400&loc=d3e5070-113901 + Details
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