Actual percentage of alternative investments that the US equity portfolio consist.

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The interest rate used to adjust for the time value of money.

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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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The assumed health care cost trend rate for the next year used to measure the expected cost of benefits covered by the plan (gross eligible charges). This is based upon the annual rate of change in the cost of health care benefits currently provided by the postretirement benefit plan, due to factors other than changes in the composition of the plan population by age and dependency status.

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Target allocation of investments of this type to total plan assets presented on a weighted average basis.

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Target allocation maximum percentage of investments of this type to total plan assets presented on a weighted average basis.

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RETIREMENT PLANS AND POST RETIREMENT PENSION PLANS RETIREMENT PLANS AND POST RETIREMENT PENSION PLANS, Target Allocations (Details)	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2016	Oct. 31, 2015	Oct. 31, 2014
Non-U.S. Defined Benefit Plans \| Real Estate Investment [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets, minimum range	0.00%
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets, maximum range	6.00%
Non-U.S. Defined Benefit Plans \| Cash [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets, minimum range	0.00%
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets, maximum range	7.00%
Non-U.S. Defined Benefit Plans \| Fixed Income Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets, minimum range	40.00%
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets, maximum range	60.00%
Non-U.S. Defined Benefit Plans \| Equity Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets, minimum range		37.00%
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets, maximum range	60.00%
United States Defined Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Defined Benefit Plan Us Portfolio Equity Securities Percentage Of Alternative Investments	5.00%	5.00%
Discount rate (in hundredths)	4.20%	4.00%
United States Defined Benefit Plans \| Fixed Income Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets	20.00%	20.00%
United States Defined Benefit Plans \| Equity Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets	80.00%	80.00%
United States Postretirement Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Defined Benefit Plan Us Portfolio Equity Securities Percentage Of Alternative Investments	5.00%	5.00%
Discount rate (in hundredths)	4.00%	4.00%
Current medical cost trend rate (in hundredths)	7.00%	8.00%	8.00%
United States Postretirement Benefit Plans \| Fixed Income Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets	20.00%	20.00%
United States Postretirement Benefit Plans \| Equity Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets	80.00%	80.00%
Minimum [Member] \| Non-U.S. Defined Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate (in hundredths)	0.77%	1.50%	1.50%
Minimum [Member] \| United States Defined Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate (in hundredths)		4.00%
Minimum [Member] \| United States Postretirement Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate (in hundredths)			4.00%
Maximum [Member] \| Non-U.S. Defined Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate (in hundredths)	3.76%	4.00%	4.50%
Maximum [Member] \| United States Defined Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate (in hundredths)			4.50%
Maximum [Member] \| United States Postretirement Benefit Plans
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Discount rate (in hundredths)			4.25%
Deferred Profit Sharing [Member] \| Fixed Income Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets	40.00%	40.00%
Deferred Profit Sharing [Member] \| Equity Securities [Member]
Defined Benefit Plan Disclosure [Line Items]
Target Allocation Percentage of Plan Assets	60.00%	60.00%