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Cliff Vesting Percentage on Third Year for Performance Awards

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Maximum Target Percentage Allowed Under Program.

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Number of purchase periods per offering period.

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Numbers of days used to calculate average stock price.

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Offering Period.

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Purchase period.

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Aggregate Grant Value Per Award

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Vesting percentage per year for focal grants - restricted stock units.

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Vesting percentage per year for restricted stock units other than focal grants

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Aggregate number of common shares reserved for future issuance.

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Amount of cost not yet recognized for nonvested award under share-based payment arrangement.

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Weighted-average period over which cost not yet recognized is expected to be recognized for award under share-based payment arrangement, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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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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The difference between the maximum number of shares (or other type of equity) authorized for issuance under the plan (including the effects of amendments and adjustments), and the sum of: 1) the number of shares (or other type of equity) already issued upon exercise of options or other equity-based awards under the plan; and 2) shares (or other type of equity) reserved for issuance on granting of outstanding awards, net of cancellations and forfeitures, if applicable.

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Stock-Based Compensation (Details Numeric) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	1 Months Ended	11 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2018	Nov. 29, 2019 USD ($) shares	Nov. 29, 2019 USD ($) purchaseperiods shares
Stock Based Compensation (Numeric) [Abstract]
Unrecognized compensation cost, adjusted for estimated forfeitures, related to non-vested stock based awards (in millions) \| $		$ 1,360.0	$ 1,360.0
Number of years over which unrecognized compensation costs will be recognized			1 year 10 months 24 days
2019 Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Common Stock, Capital Shares Reserved for Future Issuance		46.0	46.0
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Available for Grant		44.1	44.1
Employee Stock Purchase Plan [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Common Stock, Capital Shares Reserved for Future Issuance		93.0	93.0
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Available for Grant		3.8	3.8
Stock Based Compensation (Numeric) [Abstract]
Offering Period			24 months
Number of purchase periods per offering period \| purchaseperiods			4
Purchase period			6 months
Restricted Stock Unit [Member] \| Focal Awards [Member]
Stock Based Compensation (Numeric) [Abstract]
Award vesting period	3 years	4 years
Vesting percentage per year for focal restricted stock units	33.33%	25.00%	25.00%
Restricted Stock Unit [Member] \| Other Awards [Member]
Stock Based Compensation (Numeric) [Abstract]
Award vesting period			4 years
Vesting percentage per year for restricted stock units other than focal grants		25.00%	25.00%
Performance Shares [Member]
Stock Based Compensation (Numeric) [Abstract]
Maximum percentage of target shares able to receive			200.00%
Performance Shares [Member] \| Programs not yet achieved [Member]
Stock Based Compensation (Numeric) [Abstract]
Award vesting period			3 years
Vesting percentage on third year for performance awards			100.00%
Director [Member] \| Restricted Stock Unit [Member]
Stock Based Compensation (Numeric) [Abstract]
Award vesting period			1 year
Non-Employee Director Aggregate Grant Value Per Award \| $			$ 0.3
Numbers of days used to calculate the aggregate value of the equity award			30 days
Vesting percentage per year for grants to non-employee directors		100.00%	100.00%