Request of me twenty, receive of me twenty.
Request of me sixty, your behest will be fulfilled.
Request of me eighty, you'll be given the same;
but ask for one hundred, and you will get only sixty.
What am I?
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Sign up to join this communityRequest of me twenty, receive of me twenty.
Request of me sixty, your behest will be fulfilled.
Request of me eighty, you'll be given the same;
but ask for one hundred, and you will get only sixty.
What am I?
Are you
minutes?
Because
20 minutes is twenty minutes, 60 minutes is sixty minutes, 80 minutes is eighty minutes (or 1:20 hours/minutes), but 1:00 is one hour or only sixty minutes.
More specifically,
numbers entered into a microwave (that means seconds/minutes instead of minutes/hours, but the idea is the same).