The inner-product distance is $d(u,v)=\|u-v\|=\sqrt{\langle u-v,u-v\rangle}$. It measures separation and satisfies the metric axioms. For functions with an integral inner product, this becomes an $L^2$ distance rather than pointwise or maximum error.
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