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Notes Payable (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Bank Lines of Credit and Notes | Bank lines of credit and notes payable are summarized as follows:
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Maximum borrowings available under bank lines of credit (all foreign banks) |  | $ | 75,041 |  |  | $ | 61,519 |
Outstanding borrowings / notes payable (all foreign bank debt) |  |  | — |  |  |  | 2,141 |
Weighted-average interest rate on notes payable |  |  | — |  |  |  | 4.35 | %
Unused bank lines of credit |  | $ | 75,041 |  |  | $ | 59,378 |

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