Financial Instruments - Foreign Exchange Risk Management (Details) - Designated as Hedging Instrument [Member] - USD ($) $ in Millions	Sep. 30, 2020	Dec. 31, 2019
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosures [Line Items]
Derivative, Notional Amount	$ 160	$ 207
Average Maturity of Foreign Exchange Hedging Contracts - within Three Months	76.00%
Average Maturity of Foreign Exchange Hedging Contracts - within Three and Six Months	9.00%
Average Maturity of Foreign Exchange Hedging Contracts - within Six and Twelve Months	12.00%
Average Maturity of Foreign Exchange Hedging Contracts - greater than twelve months	3.00%

Average Maturity of Foreign Exchange Hedging Contracts - within Six and Twelve Months

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Average Maturity of Foreign Exchange Hedging Contracts - within Three and Six Months Outstanding average forward exchange and purchase option contracts that mature within six months.

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Average Maturity of Foreign Exchange Hedging Contracts - within Three Months. Outstanding average forward exchange and purchase option contracts that mature within three months.

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Average Maturity of Foreign Exchange Hedging Contracts - greater than twelve months

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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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Nominal or face amount used to calculate payment on derivative.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 815
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1B
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=121590274&loc=SL5580258-113959

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 815
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1A
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