From 9ab4b504695b5d26ec0e499263059ad171ade45e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oscar Gustafsson <oscar.gustafsson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 12:21:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #24069: Clarification of marker size in scatter

---
 lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
index c578765bfa1c..9df42e0c4d0b 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -4402,7 +4402,7 @@ def scatter(self, x, y, s=None, c=None, marker=None, cmap=None, norm=None,
             The data positions.
 
         s : float or array-like, shape (n, ), optional
-            The marker size in points**2.
+            The marker size in points**2 (typographic points are 1/72 in.).
             Default is ``rcParams['lines.markersize'] ** 2``.
 
         c : array-like or list of colors or color, optional