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Note 2 - Business (Detail) | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2012
Number of Operating Segments | 6
Number of Communities | 172
Homebuilding [Member] |
Number of Operating Segments | 6
Revenue, Percent of Total | 97.00%

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- Definition Number of new home communities in which the company is currently building and selling homes + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Percentage of consolidated revenues of the company's homebuilding operations, as a percentage of total company revenues. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues. + References No definition available. + Details
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