Reciprocity and contrapositive in the Pythagorean theorem

The reciprocal of the Pythagorean theorem is the same as explaining that a triangle is right-angled. For example consider a triangle whose lengths are 3 4 and 5. To explain that this triangle is a right-angled triangle we need to use the reciprocal of the Pythagorean theorem. On the one hand we have 32+42=9+16=25. On the other hand it's true that 52=25. So 32+42=52 and by the reciprocal of the Pythagorean theorem it's a right-angled triangle. If we want to explain that a triangle is a right-angled triangle we need to sum the squares of the two shortest lengths and check whether this sum is equal to the square of the longest side.