Consolidated Statements of Earnings - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2018	Oct. 31, 2017	Oct. 31, 2016
Net revenue:
Products	$ 19,504	$ 17,597	$ 18,843
Services	10,901	10,878	11,073
Financing income	447	396	364
Total net revenue	30,852	28,871	30,280
Costs and expenses:
Cost of products	14,079	12,715	13,040
Cost of services	7,203	7,197	7,218
Financing interest	278	265	249
Research and development	1,663	1,486	1,714
Selling, general and administrative	4,851	5,006	5,380
Amortization of intangible assets	294	321	272
Impairment of goodwill	88	0	0
Restructuring charges	19	417	417
Transformation costs	425	359	0
Disaster charges	0	93	0
Acquisition and other related charges	82	203	145
Separation costs	12	248	362
Defined benefit plan settlement charges and remeasurement (benefit)	0	(64)	0
Gain on H3C and MphasiS divestitures	0	0	(2,420)
Total costs and expenses	28,994	28,246	26,377
Earnings from continuing operations	1,858	625	3,903
Interest and other, net	(274)	(327)	(284)
Tax indemnification adjustments	(1,354)	(3)	317
Earnings (loss) from equity interests	38	(23)	(76)
Earnings from continuing operations before taxes	268	272	3,860
Benefit (provision) for taxes	1,744	164	(623)
Net earnings from continuing operations	2,012	436	3,237
Net (loss) earnings from discontinued operations	(104)	(92)	(76)
Net earnings	$ 1,908	$ 344	$ 3,161
Basic
Continuing operations (in dollars per share)	$ 1.32	$ 0.26	$ 1.89
Discontinued operations (in dollars per share)	(0.07)	(0.05)	(0.05)
Total basic net earnings (loss) per share (in dollars per share)	1.25	0.21	1.84
Diluted
Continuing operations (in dollars per share)	1.30	0.26	1.86
Discontinued operations (in dollars per share)	(0.07)	(0.05)	(0.04)
Total diluted net earnings (loss) per share (in dollars per share)	1.23	0.21	1.82
Cash dividends declared per share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.4875	$ 0.26	$ 0.22
Weighted-average shares used to compute net earnings per share:
Basic (in shares)	1,529	1,646	1,715
Diluted (in shares)	1,553	1,674	1,739