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Question: how to prevent evaluate of fraction using backquote or otherwise?

Question:how to prevent evaluate of fraction using backquote or otherwise?

nm 9934
evaluation
December 30 2014
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Sorry for basic question, Maple newbie here and I could not find answer using google.

I understand in Maple one uses the back quote key (or rather the apostrophe, 0X27) to prevent one time evaluation of expression. Hence when writing

'sin(Pi)'; #this remain sin(Pi)
%; # now we get 0

But when I tried it on fraction, it did not hold it:

'16/4'; #maple replied with 4

This might indicate that the front end parser did this simplification before the main evaluator got hold of it, so it was too late?

Either way, how would one make Maple return 16/4 when the input is '16/4'?
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