Fair Value Measurements and Fair Value of Financial Instruments - Additional Information (Detail)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Marketable securities	$ 20,300,000
Other than temporary impaired investments	$ 0
Minimum
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Marketable securities term	1 year
Maximum
Debt Securities, Available-for-sale [Line Items]
Marketable securities term	2 years

Debt Securities, Available-For-Sale, Maturity, Allocated and Single Maturity Date, After One Through Two Years

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Other than temporary impaired investments available for sale securities.

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Period between issuance and maturity of investment in debt security measured at fair value with change in fair value recognized in other comprehensive income (available-for-sale), in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (bbb)(2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=117815213&loc=d3e19207-110258

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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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