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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Proportion of Consideration Expected in Cash

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Proportion of Consideration Expected in Equity

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Nominal or face amount used to calculate payment on derivative.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 815
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 815
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1A
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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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Subsequent Event - Narrative (Details) $ in Millions, SFr in Billions	Oct. 07, 2020 USD ($)	Oct. 07, 2020 CHF (SFr)	Sep. 30, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Foreign Exchange Contract
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Notional amount of derivative \| $			$ 208.0	$ 152.0
Subsequent Event \| Foreign Exchange Contract
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Notional amount of derivative \| SFr		SFr 4.8
Subsequent Event \| Bisnode
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Estimated purchase price	$ 818.0	SFr 7.2
Proportion of consideration expected in cash (as a percent)	75.00%	75.00%
Proportion of consideration expected in equity (as a percent)	25.00%	25.00%