limits as number of points going to infinity at minkowski distance

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Given that the Minkowski distance between points $X = (x_1,\dots,x_n)$ and $Y = (y_1,\dots ,y_n)$ is defined as following $$ d(X, Y) = \left(\sum_{i=1}^n|x_i−y_i|^p\right)^{1/p}, $$ I learned that as p goes to the infinity our result will be max distance between the points. Defined as following ; $$ \lim_{p\to\infty}d(X, Y) = \max_{i=1, \dots, n} |x_i-y_i|. $$
I want to learn that what will happen as n (the number of point)goes to the infinity? What will be the results of this limit ? By the way p can be any integer value starting from 1 to infinity. But to make it simple, lets take p as 2.

My question is as follows;

$$ \lim_{n\to\infty} \left(\sum_{i=1}^n|x_i−y_i|^p\right)^{1/p}=? $$

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The answer is easy:

$$\lim_{n\to\infty} \left(\sum_{i=1}^n|a_i|^p\right)^{1/p}=\left(\sum_{i=1}^{\infty}|a_i|^p\right)^{1/p}, $$

if $(a_i) \in l^p$.