Question: How can I make Maple compute with expressions instead of values?

Like when I type

1/2^2;

it gives

1/4

but if I type

0.5^2;

it gives

0.25

I want it to consider 0.5 as 1/2, because sometimes I make computations on large equations and I want to have access to the symbolic output, not the numeric output.

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