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Earnings Per Share (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 05, 2015
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Basic and diluted earnings per share |
|  | Quarter Ended |  | Six Months Ended
|  | March 5, 2015 |  | February 27, 2014 |  | March 5, 2015 |  | February 27, 2014
Net income available to Micron shareholders – Basic |  | $ | 934 |  |  | $ | 731 |  |  | $ | 1,937 |  |  | $ | 1,089 |
Dilutive effect related to equity method investment |  | (2 | ) |  | — |  |  | (3 | ) |  | — |
Net income available to Micron shareholders – Diluted |  | $ | 932 |  |  | $ | 731 |  |  | $ | 1,934 |  |  | $ | 1,089 |
Weighted-average common shares outstanding – Basic |  | 1,074 |  |  | 1,060 |  |  | 1,072 |  |  | 1,053 |
Dilutive effect of equity plans and convertible notes |  | 116 |  |  | 141 |  |  | 121 |  |  | 146 |
Weighted-average common shares outstanding – Diluted |  | 1,190 |  |  | 1,201 |  |  | 1,193 |  |  | 1,199 |
Earnings per share: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic |  | $ | 0.87 |  |  | $ | 0.69 |  |  | $ | 1.81 |  |  | $ | 1.03 |
Diluted |  | 0.78 |  |  | 0.61 |  |  | 1.62 |  |  | 0.91 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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