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Employee Benefit Plans - Stock Option Plans and Stock Purchase Rights Granted Under ESPP (Details) - $ / shares | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2024 | Oct. 31, 2023 | Oct. 31, 2022
Stock Option |  |  |
Schedule of Weighted Average Assumptions for Fair Values of Stock Options[Line Items] |  |  |
Expected life (in years) | 4 years 1 month 6 days | 4 years 1 month 6 days | 4 years 1 month 6 days
Risk-free interest rate, minimum | 3.62% | 3.80% | 1.07%
Risk-free interest rate, maximum | 4.61% | 4.80% | 4.42%
Volatility, minimum | 32.09% | 32.74% | 32.28%
Volatility, maximum | 35.42% | 36.16% | 37.04%
Weighted average estimated fair value (in USD per share) | $ 178.67 | $ 120.33 | $ 98.07
Employee Stock Purchase Plan |  |  |
Schedule of Weighted Average Assumptions for Fair Values of Stock Options[Line Items] |  |  |
Risk-free interest rate, minimum | 3.88% | 4.85% | 0.67%
Risk-free interest rate, maximum | 5.27% | 5.38% | 3.44%
Volatility, minimum | 31.40% | 28.03% | 34.51%
Volatility, maximum | 34.39% | 35.27% | 38.69%
Weighted average estimated fair value (in USD per share) | $ 179.10 | $ 120.82 | $ 102.63
Employee Stock Purchase Plan | Minimum |  |  |
Schedule of Weighted Average Assumptions for Fair Values of Stock Options[Line Items] |  |  |
Expected life (in years) | 6 months | 6 months | 6 months
Employee Stock Purchase Plan | Maximum |  |  |
Schedule of Weighted Average Assumptions for Fair Values of Stock Options[Line Items] |  |  |
Expected life (in years) | 2 years | 2 years | 2 years

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- Definition The estimated measure of the maximum 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 No definition available. + Details
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