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Exercise price per share or per unit of warrants or rights outstanding.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
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-Section 50
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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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Number of securities into which the class of warrant or right may be converted. For example, but not limited to, 500,000 warrants may be converted into 1,000,000 shares.

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Expiration date of outstanding warrant and right embodying unconditional obligation requiring redemption by transferring asset at specified or determinable date or upon event certain to occur, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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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
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Warrants - Summary of Issued Warrants for Its Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and Common Stock (Detail) - $ / shares shares in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2020	Nov. 01, 2020	Oct. 01, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019	Jul. 31, 2019	Nov. 30, 2018
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of shares underlying warrants	26,385	7,531	18,854	16,221	32,064	68,901
Exercise price per share				$ 7.84	$ 6.24
Warrants One [Member]
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of shares underlying warrants						36,838
Exercise price per share						$ 3.26
Warrants Two [Member]
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of shares underlying warrants						32,063
Exercise price per share						$ 6.24
Common Stock [Member]
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of shares underlying warrants	26,385
Common Stock [Member] \| Warrants One [Member]
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of shares underlying warrants	18,854
Issuance date	Dec. 22, 2015
Expiration date	Dec. 22, 2025
Exercise price per share	$ 14.85
Common Stock [Member] \| Warrants Two [Member]
Class of Warrant or Right [Line Items]
Number of shares underlying warrants	7,531
Issuance date	Mar. 28, 2016
Expiration date	Mar. 28, 2026
Exercise price per share	$ 21.24