Income Taxes Income Taxes (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
Dec. 01, 2016	Dec. 03, 2015
Income Tax Expense (Benefit), Continuing Operations [Abstract]
U.S. valuation allowance release resulting from business acquisition	$ 0	$ 41
Other, primarily non-U.S. operations	(18)	(15)
Income tax (provision) benefit	(31)	4
Tax benefit due to arrangements allowing computation of tax provision at rates below local statutory rates	$ 40	$ 12
Tax benefit per diluted share due to arrangements allowing computation of tax provision at rates below local statutory rates (in dollars per share)	$ 0.04	$ 0.01
MMJ Group
Income Tax Expense (Benefit), Continuing Operations [Abstract]
Utilization of and other changes in net deferred tax assets of MMJ and MMT	$ (13)	$ (22)

Amount of deferred foreign income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to income (loss) from continuing operations.

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Amount of other deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to income (loss) from continuing operations. For example, but not limited to, acquisition-date income tax benefits or expenses recognized from changes in the acquirer's valuation allowance for its previously existing deferred tax assets resulting from a business combination and adjustments to beginning-of-year balance of a valuation allowance because of a change in circumstance causing a change in judgment about the realizability of the related deferred tax asset in future periods.

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Amount of current income tax expense (benefit) and deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to continuing operations.

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The amount of income taxes from which a reporting entity is exempt or for which it will receive a reduction in income taxes as a result of the income tax holiday granted by the taxing jurisdiction.

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Per share amount effect of the income tax benefit resulting from the income tax holidays granted by taxing jurisdictions.

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