Allowance for Credit Losses and Credit Quality of Receivables - Allowance for Credit Losses (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 29, 2017	Oct. 30, 2016	Nov. 01, 2015
Allowance:
Beginning of year balance	$ 111.7	$ 109.8	$ 112.4
Provision for credit losses	70.3	68.8	32.3
Write-offs	(96.3)	(91.3)	(55.9)
Recoveries	28.0	24.9	22.6
Translation adjustments	0.1	(0.5)	(1.6)
End of year balance	113.8	111.7	109.8
Balance individually evaluated	3.2	2.6	1.2
Receivables:
End of year balance	28,395.7	27,714.5	29,092.4
Balance individually evaluated	72.1	54.3	32.1
Retail notes
Allowance:
Beginning of year balance	56.3	53.3	56.1
Provision for credit losses	29.7	27.3	9.4
Write-offs	(38.2)	(29.9)	(17.8)
Recoveries	7.8	5.8	6.5
Translation adjustments	0.1	(0.2)	(0.9)
End of year balance	55.7	56.3	53.3
Balance individually evaluated	0.6	2.3
Receivables:
End of year balance	17,214.6	17,468.2	18,659.0
Balance individually evaluated	41.0	44.5	20.2
Revolving charge accounts
Allowance:
Beginning of year balance	39.7	39.7	39.9
Provision for credit losses	32.3	35.8	20.7
Write-offs	(52.2)	(54.3)	(36.2)
Recoveries	19.9	18.5	15.3
End of year balance	39.7	39.7	39.7
Receivables:
End of year balance	3,572.6	3,078.5	2,680.8
Balance individually evaluated	3.1	8.4	0.2
Wholesale receivables
Allowance:
Beginning of year balance	7.2	8.1	7.6
Provision for credit losses	3.0	3.1	0.6
Write-offs	(0.2)	(4.1)	(0.3)
Recoveries		0.1	0.6
Translation adjustments	(0.1)		(0.4)
End of year balance	9.9	7.2	8.1
Balance individually evaluated	2.6	0.2	1.0
Receivables:
End of year balance	6,894.3	6,562.5	7,185.5
Balance individually evaluated	24.0	0.8	10.9
Financing leases
Allowance:
Write-offs	(5.7)	(3.0)	(1.6)
Recoveries	0.3	0.5	0.2
Receivables:
End of year balance	714.2	605.3
Other
Allowance:
Beginning of year balance	8.5	8.7	8.8
Provision for credit losses	5.3	2.6	1.6
Write-offs	(5.7)	(3.0)	(1.6)
Recoveries	0.3	0.5	0.2
Translation adjustments	0.1	(0.3)	(0.3)
End of year balance	8.5	8.5	8.7
Balance individually evaluated		0.1	0.2
Receivables:
End of year balance	714.2	605.3	567.1
Balance individually evaluated	$ 4.0	$ 0.6	$ 0.8