Abstract
Various properties are given concerning geodesics on, and distance functions from points in, typical degenerate convex surfaces; i.e., surfaces obtained by gluing together two isometric copies of typical (in the sense of Baire category) convex bodies, by identifying the corresponding points of their boundaries.
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