Note 5 Accounts Receivable Sale Program (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	9 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2018	Jul. 01, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017
Transfer of Financial Assets Accounted for as Sales [Line Items]
Percentage of Face Value of Receivable Sold	100.00%
Accounts Receivable Sold During The Period	$ 558	$ 336
Accounts Receivable Sold and Outstanding	217		$ 140
RPA [Member]
Transfer of Financial Assets Accounted for as Sales [Line Items]
Maximum Accounts Receivable Sale Capacity	$ 455

Accounts Receivable Sold During The Period

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Maximum amount of accounts receivable that can be sold at any point in time under the program.

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The price of receivables sold expressed as a percentage of the face value of the receivables

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Amount of derecognized financial assets from transactions which comprise an initial transfer and an agreement entered into in contemplation of the initial transfer resulting in retention of substantially all of the exposure to the economic return throughout the term of the transaction, at the date of derecognition.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 860
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4D
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=109247956&loc=SL51823488-111719

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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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