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How to prevent from simplification?

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Subject: [mg52441] How to prevent from simplification?
From: Christian Auner <mca at nurfuerspam.de>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:40:44 -0500 (EST)
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How can I substitute values into an expression and prevent it from
beeing evaluated and simplified?

Assume I have an expression like

a + b/c 

and I want to substitute values for a,b and such that the result looks
like

number + number

That is the evalution stops right before the addition.

I already tried HoldForm but it didn't work.

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