Proving X Complete: Analysis Homework

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Let X be a normed linear space. Prove that X is complete if and only if \sum^{\infty}_{n=1} x_{n} converges in X for all sequences (x_{n}) that satisfy \sum^{\infty}_{n=1} \left\|x_{n}\right\|< \infty
 
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What have you tried? This is actually a familiar fact from calculus. Do you remember how in R a series converged if it converged absolutely? And do you remember how that was proved? Same proof works here.
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...
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