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Investments - Other Investments (Details)	Apr. 28, 2018 company
Cost basis investments
Investments
Preferred share investments, number of privately-held companies	2

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The number of privately-held companies in which the entity holds investments in preferred shares.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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