Represents percentage of common stock outstanding for class of warrant or right.

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- Definition

Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126973232&loc=d3e21475-112644

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- Definition

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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- Definition

Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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- Definition

Number of warrants or rights outstanding.

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Common Stock (Details) - $ / shares shares in Thousands	Sep. 26, 2021	Mar. 30, 2018	Mar. 31, 2014
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Warrants outstanding (in shares)	600
Warrant Agreement
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Class of warrant or right, number of securities called by warrants or rights (in shares)			600
Class of warrant or right, percentage of common stock outstanding			10.10%
Class of warrant or right, exercise price of warrants or rights (in dollars per share)			$ 41.90
Warrants outstanding (in shares)		16,930