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Employee Benefit Plans (Employee Stock Purchase Plan) - Additional Information (Detail) - $ / shares shares in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2016	Oct. 31, 2015	Oct. 31, 2014	Mar. 29, 2016
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]
Threshold for employee stock purchases under ESPP, maximum value	85.00%
ESPP offering period (in years)	2 years
Increase in number of shares authorized for issuance under plan				5.0
Shares issued	1.6	1.7	1.8
Weighted average purchase price of stock purchased	$ 37.77	$ 31.55	$ 30.00
Shares reserved for future issuance under the ESPP	8.7

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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