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Restricted Stock Issued Under Plan

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Share Based Compensation Arrangement By Share Based Payment Award Number Of Shares Authorized Current

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Stock options issued under plan

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Aggregate cash paid by the entity during the period to settle equity instruments granted under equity-based payment arrangements.

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Amount of cost to be recognized for nonvested award under share-based payment arrangement. Excludes share and unit options.

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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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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Number of shares issued under share-based payment arrangement.

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Period from grant date that an equity-based award expires, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Stock Based Compensation Plans (Omnibus Incentive Plan, Stock Option, Restricted Stock and Phantom Share Units Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2019	Oct. 31, 2018	Oct. 31, 2017
Stock Options [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period	10 years
Option expiration period	5 years
Deferred Stock Units [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period	5 years
Omnibus Incentive Plan 2013 [Member] \| Non-Voting Common Stock [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Common stock reserved for future issuance under the plan, current	34,500,000
Restricted stock issued under plan	9,400,000
Stock options issued under plan	15,000,000.0
Cumulative Shares Issued	100,000
Omnibus Incentive Plan 2013 [Member] \| Deferred Stock Units [Member] \| Director [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Nonvested Awards, Compensation Not yet Recognized, Share-based Awards Other than Options	$ 1.7	$ 1.3
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Shares Issued in Period	19,758
Cash paid to settle deferred stock unit award liabilities	$ 0.5	$ 0.4	$ 0.4