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Goodwill - Additional Information (Detail)	Jul. 31, 2011 Year Entity Investment
Goodwill [Line Items]
Number of reporting units	4

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Number of Reportable Business Segments

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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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