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The prescribed form is a sum of products of real polynomial evaluations. It is a symmetric bilinear form, since each evaluation is a linear map. AlsoEquality forces $f(-1)=f(0)=f(1)=0$. A nonzero polynomial of degree of a polynomial at most two cannot have three distinct roots of a polynomial, by the root bound for a polynomial. Thus equality holds only for the zero polynomial, establishing positive definiteness. Therefore the form is a real inner product, and $V$ is an inner product space. This is a discrete sampling inner product on polynomial spaces.