Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Per Share

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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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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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Expected term of award under share-based payment arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Stock-Based Compensation - Schedule of Share-based Payment Award, Stock Options, Valuation Assumptions (Details) - $ / shares	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019	Sep. 30, 2018
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected term	6 months	6 months	6 months
Expected dividend	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Tranche 1 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Fair Value, Per Share	$ 196.02
Expected term	10 months 28 days
Risk-free interest rate	1.53%
Expected dividend	0.00%
Tranche 1 [Member] \| F5 Networks [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected volatility	27.61%
Tranche 1 [Member] \| Index Members [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected volatility	26.88%
Tranche 2 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Fair Value, Per Share	$ 199.85
Expected term	1 year 10 months 28 days
Risk-free interest rate	1.55%
Expected dividend	0.00%
Tranche 2 [Member] \| F5 Networks [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected volatility	26.22%
Tranche 2 [Member] \| Index Members [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected volatility	26.70%
Tranche 3 [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Fair Value, Per Share	$ 202.56
Expected term	2 years 10 months 28 days
Risk-free interest rate	1.54%
Expected dividend	0.00%
Tranche 3 [Member] \| F5 Networks [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected volatility	24.90%
Tranche 3 [Member] \| Index Members [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Expected volatility	24.82%