Recently Issued Accounting Standards Recently Issued Accounting Standards (Details)	12 Months Ended
Apr. 01, 2017
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Abstract]
HistoricalLicensingRevenueAsAPercentageofTotalRevenues	2.00%

Approximate Historical Licensing Revenue as a Percentage of Total Revenues

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