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Represents the weighted average exercise price of stock option and stock appreciation rights, as of the balance sheet date, for those equity-based payment arrangements exercisable and outstanding.

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Represents the floor of a customized range of exercise prices for purposes of disclosing shares potentially issuable under outstanding stock option and stock appreciation rights and other required information pertaining to awards in the customized range.

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Represents the number of shares reserved for issuance pertaining to the outstanding exercisable stock options and stock appreciation rights, as of the balance sheet date, in the customized range of exercise prices for which the market and performance vesting condition has been satisfied.

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Represents the number of shares reserved for issuance pertaining to the outstanding stock options and stock appreciation rights, as of the balance sheet date, for all option plans in the customized range of exercise prices.

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Represents the weighted average price, as of the balance sheet date, at which grantees could acquire the underlying shares with respect to all outstanding stock options and stock appreciation rights which are in the customized range of exercise prices.

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Represents the weighted average remaining contractual term of outstanding stock options and stock appreciation rights, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Represents the cap of a customized range of exercise prices for purposes of disclosing shares potentially issuable under outstanding stock option and stock appreciation rights and other required information pertaining to awards in the customized range.

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Weighted average remaining contractual term of exercisable stock options and stock appreciation rights, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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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