Consolidated Statements of Earnings - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 31, 2019	Oct. 31, 2018	Oct. 31, 2017
Net revenue:
Financing income	$ 458	$ 447	$ 396
Total net revenue	29,135	30,852	28,871
Costs and expenses:
Financing interest	297	278	265
Research and development	1,842	1,667	1,490
Selling, general and administrative	4,907	4,921	5,012
Amortization of intangible assets	267	294	321
Impairment of goodwill	0	88	0
Restructuring charges	0	19	388
Transformation costs	453	414	359
Disaster (recoveries) charges	(7)	0	93
Acquisition, disposition and other related charges	757	82	203
Separation costs	0	9	248
Defined benefit plan remeasurement benefit	0	0	(9)
Total costs and expenses	27,861	29,115	28,307
Earnings from continuing operations	1,274	1,737	564
Interest and other, net	(177)	(274)	(327)
Tax indemnification adjustments	377	(1,354)	(3)
Non-service net periodic benefit credit	59	121	61
Earnings (loss) from equity interests	20	38	(23)
Earnings from continuing operations before taxes	1,553	268	272
(Provision) benefit for taxes	(504)	1,744	164
Net earnings from continuing operations	1,049	2,012	436
Net loss from discontinued operations	0	(104)	(92)
Net earnings	$ 1,049	$ 1,908	$ 344
Basic
Continuing operations (in dollars per share)	$ 0.78	$ 1.32	$ 0.26
Discontinued operations (in dollars per share)	0	(0.07)	(0.05)
Total basic net earnings per share (in dollars per share)	0.78	1.25	0.21
Diluted
Continuing operations (in dollars per share)	0.77	1.30	0.26
Discontinued operations (in dollars per share)	0	(0.07)	(0.05)
Total diluted net earnings per share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.77	$ 1.23	$ 0.21
Weighted-average shares used to compute net earnings per share:
Basic (in shares)	1,353	1,529	1,646
Diluted (in shares)	1,366	1,553	1,674
Product
Net revenue:
Revenues	$ 18,170	$ 19,504	$ 17,597
Costs and expenses:
Cost of sales	12,533	14,090	12,709
Service
Net revenue:
Revenues	10,507	10,901	10,878
Costs and expenses:
Cost of sales	$ 6,812	$ 7,253	$ 7,228