Operating Segments and Geographic Area Data - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2014 Segment
Segment Reporting [Abstract]
Number of operating segments	3us-gaap_NumberOfOperatingSegments
Major customers	No single customer accounted for 10 percent or more of sales in 2014, 2013 or 2012.

Disclosure of the extent of enterprise reliance on its major customers. For example, includes revenues from transactions with a single external customer amounting to 10 percent or more of the entity's revenues, the total amount of revenues from each such customer, and the identity of the segment or segments reporting the revenues. A group of entities that the entity knows to be under common control generally will be considered a single customer for inclusion in this item. The federal government, a state government, a local government (for example, a county or municipality), or a foreign government each will generally be considered as a single customer for inclusion in this item.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 280

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 42

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9054-108599

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