Income Taxes - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions	9 Months Ended
Dec. 05, 2015	Nov. 29, 2014
Income Tax [Line Items]
Discrete Tax Benefit	$ 1	$ 5
Unrecognized tax benefits decreased	11
Unrecognized Tax Benefits	$ 105
Number of months within which company does not anticipate significant change in unrecognized tax benefits	12 months
Possible change in unrecognized tax benefits, lower range	$ 5
Possible change in unrecognized tax benefits, upper range	$ 15

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Income Tax [Line Items]

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Number Of Period Within Which Company Does Not Anticipate Significant Change In Unrecognized Tax Benefits

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Amount of (increase) decrease reasonably possible in the estimated lower bound of the unrecognized tax benefit for a tax position taken or expected to be taken.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 15
-Subparagraph (d)
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Amount of (increase) decrease reasonably possible in the estimated upper bound of the unrecognized tax benefit for a tax position taken or expected to be taken.

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Amount of unrecognized tax benefits pertaining to uncertain tax positions taken in tax returns.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 740
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 15A
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Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Glossary Unrecognized Tax Benefit
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6527854

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The net amount of all increases and decreases in unrecognized tax benefits for the period.

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