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Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands | 2 Months Ended | 3 Months Ended | 10 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended |
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Dec. 31, 2017 | Jul. 31, 2018 | Oct. 31, 2018 | Oct. 31, 2018 | Oct. 31, 2017 | Oct. 31, 2016 | Oct. 31, 2015
Income Tax [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Earnings before income taxes of domestic operations |  |  |  | $ 192,643 | $ 181,840 | $ 156,723 |
U.S. federal corporate income tax rate | 35.00% |  | 21.00% | 23.34% | 35.00% | 35.00% |
Provisional tax benefit due to revaluation of tax assets and liabilities at reduced corporate tax rate |  |  |  | $ 49,082 |  |  |
Provisional tax expense to reflect the transition tax on previously deferred foreign earnings |  |  |  | 27,618 |  |  |
Decrease in income tax expense |  |  |  | $ 21,464 |  |  |
Payment of transition tax in installments, period |  |  |  | 8 years |  |  |
Lapse of statute of limitations |  | $ 1,041 |  | $ 1,120 | $ 555 | $ 523 |
Discrete tax expense related to nondeductible acquisition costs |  |  |  |  | 1,070 |  |
Additional tax benefit relating to retroactive reinstatement of research credit |  |  |  |  |  | 2,200 |
Additional tax benefit related to dividends paid from foreign earnings tax credit |  |  |  |  |  | 6,154 |
Favorable adjustment to unrecognized tax benefits |  |  |  |  |  | 2,682 |
Earnings before income taxes of international operations |  |  |  | 255,877 | 238,451 | 211,771 |
Undistributed earnings aggregated |  |  | $ 1,088,183 | 1,088,183 | 1,026,793 |  |
Total unrecognized tax benefits |  |  | 2,891 | 2,891 | 3,781 | 3,336 | $ 6,258
Total unrecognized tax benefits impact the effective tax rate |  |  | 2,411 | 2,411 | 3,273 |  |
Accrued interest expense related to unrecognized tax benefits |  |  | 538 | 538 | 623 |  |
Tax credit carryforwards |  |  | 6,804 | 6,804 |  |  |
Capital loss carryforward |  |  | 20,149 | 20,149 |  |  |
Indefinite carryforward period |  |  | 13,842 | 13,842 |  |  |
Net change in the valuation allowance |  |  |  | (29) | 6,587 |  |
Valuation allowance relates to tax credits and loss carryforwards |  |  | 14,862 | 14,862 |  |  |
2019 through 2038 [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Income Tax [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Operating loss carryforwards |  |  | 89,635 | 89,635 |  |  |
Federal [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Income Tax [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Operating loss carryforwards |  |  | 2,751 | 2,751 |  |  |
State [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Income Tax [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Operating loss carryforwards |  |  | 64,899 | 64,899 |  |  |
Foreign [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Income Tax [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Operating loss carryforwards |  |  | $ 15,678 | 15,678 |  |  |
New Accounting Guidance Adopted [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Income Tax [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Excess tax benefit from share based compensation , operating activities |  |  |  | $ 9,498 |  |  |
Excess tax benefit from share-based compensation, reclassification from financing activities to operating activities |  |  |  |  | $ 7,079 | $ 3,476 |

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