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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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Amount of cash outflow to satisfy grantee's tax withholding obligation for award under share-based payment arrangement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 15
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=123570139&loc=d3e3291-108585

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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Amount of stock repurchase plan authorized.

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The number of shares authorized to be repurchased by an entity's Board of Directors under a stock repurchase plan.

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STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, shares in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Jan. 29, 2022	Dec. 13, 2021	Dec. 13, 2018
Accelerated Share Repurchases [Line Items]
Shares repurchased for tax withholdings on vesting of restricted stock units	$ 25.2
Stock Repurchase Program
Accelerated Share Repurchases [Line Items]
Stock repurchase program authorized amount			$ 1,000.0
Accelerated Share Repurchase Agreement
Accelerated Share Repurchases [Line Items]
Stock repurchase program authorized amount		$ 250.0
Authorized amount of stock repurchase program (in shares)		2.7
Advance purchase price, percent		80.00%
Share price (in dollars per share)		$ 74.12