Prove norm doesn't come from inner product.

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Please help me prove this. I'm not sure how to apply the parallelogram law to the norm.

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Pick two vectors $x$, $y$ in the space under consideration, which is presumably $\mathbb{R}^2$.

Calculate $\|x+y\|$, $\|x-y\|$, $\|x\|$ and $\|y\|$ using the norm you are given, in this case $\|\cdot\|_1$.

See whether the parallelogram rule holds for this particular $x$, $y$.

If it fails, then you know that the norm does not come from an inner product.