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SHARE-BASED COMPENSATION (Fair Value Assumptions) (Details) - LTPP [Member]	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2019	Oct. 31, 2018	Oct. 31, 2017
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Volatility of Keysight shares	25.00%	25.00%	27.00%
Volatility of selected index/peer group	12.00%	14.00%	15.00%
Price-wise correlation with selected peers	57.00%	57.00%	57.00%

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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.

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The measure of the percentage amount by which a share price fluctuates during a period for peer companies. 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.

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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.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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