Every inner product space is a normed space which is also a metric space

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As I am pretty sure that everybody knows that a Hilbert space is a space that is a complete, separable and generally infinite dimensional inner product space. By the means of completion, every Cauchy sequence is convergent in this space. Besides, every inner product space is a normed space which is also a metric space, that can be shown as folows:

$d(\vec{x}, \vec{y})=\| \vec{x}-\vec{y}\| $

However, in a document online, I just saw this notation below which I can not understand.

$d(\vec{x}, \vec{y})=\| \vec{x}-\vec{y}\| =\sqrt{\langle \vec{x}, \vec{y}\rangle} $

How can the third part of this equality above hold? Thanks in advance.