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you can to define norms of functions.
like if you take a vector space of C[0,1] i.e continuous function from closed interval [0,1] to reals, you can take a norm to be for example
d_inf (f) = sup{|f(t)|, t in [0,1]
which induces a metric
d_inf (f,g) = sup{|f(t)-g(t)|, t in [0,1]}
You could also define
d_p (f) = [integral 0 to 1 of |f(x)-g(x)|^p dx]^(1/p)
That will induce a metric on the vector space as well.
in the vector space