Inventories (Schedule of Capitalized Interest Costs) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2025	Feb. 29, 2024
Interest Costs
Capitalized interest at beginning of period	$ 122,387	$ 134,375
Interest incurred	26,392	26,505
Interest amortized to construction and land costs	(23,423)	(26,503)
Capitalized interest at end of period	$ 125,356	$ 134,377

Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of interest costs that were capitalized to properties under development during the land development and construction period of a project, and which are included in inventory.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 835
-SubTopic 20
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (b)
-Publisher FASB
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/1943274/2147483013/835-20-50-1

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Amount of interest cost charged to cost of sales that had been previously capitalized to inventory.

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The amount of interest capitalized to an operative builder's inventory during the period.

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A roll forward is a reconciliation of a concept from the beginning of a period to the end of a period.

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